Tanith Lee Quotes
Top 87 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.
Mirrors taught: Perhaps there were always at least two sorts of reality, what you credited, and what was true.
Would you like an interview for the drama, too?"
"I can't act."
"Everyone can act. We spend our lives acting.
"I can't act."
"Everyone can act. We spend our lives acting.
Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.
If you run away from trouble, it always follows.'
Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.
Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.
The guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter.
I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.
It was the forest's fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps ...
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.
I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
I loved him, just for a minute. I loved him and I grieved for him and my pity was part of the beauty, before the shame began.
Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.
I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death.
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.
Hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanaquil gently toed the peeve. "I'll unfasten the window. Jump out to the lower roof and run."
"Stay and bite," said the peeve.
"Stay and bite," said the peeve.
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest.
Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.
What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.