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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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No one is ever ordinary.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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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 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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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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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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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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