Tanith Lee

Writer

1947-09-19

Quotes by Tanith Lee

• Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

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• It was the forest's fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps...

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• The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

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• It's lovely. I hate it.

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• We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

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• I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

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• I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.

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• The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

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• It's lovely. I hate it.

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• The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

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• The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

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• I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

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• It was the forest's fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps...

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• I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.

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• We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

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• Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

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• I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

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• I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

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• I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

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