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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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I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
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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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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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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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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 came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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 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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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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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 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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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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