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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
Tanith Lee
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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
Publishing
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Started
Knew
Anything
Nothing
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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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The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
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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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