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Tanith Lee Inspirational Quotes (46)

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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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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.
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It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.
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I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.
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World's flying like birds my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.
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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.
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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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