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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
Started
Knew
Anything
Nothing
Publishing
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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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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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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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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 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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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'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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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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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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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I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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