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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

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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
Writer
Started
Knew
Anything
Nothing

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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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 haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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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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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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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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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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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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No one is ever ordinary.
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