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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
Tanith Lee
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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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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 will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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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 like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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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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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.
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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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