Quote

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

Tanith Lee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Bliss
Tales
Hero
Ends
Heroes

More quotes by Tanith Lee

Image
Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
Tanith Lee
Image
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.
Tanith Lee
Image
The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
Tanith Lee
Image
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.
Tanith Lee
Image
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.
Tanith Lee
Image
Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
Tanith Lee
Image
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
Tanith Lee
Image
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
Tanith Lee
Image
No one more cynical than an idealist.
Tanith Lee
Image
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.
Tanith Lee
Image
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.
Tanith Lee
Image
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.
Tanith Lee
Image
If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete.
Tanith Lee
Image
I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
Tanith Lee
Image
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
Tanith Lee
Image
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.
Tanith Lee
Image
He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
Tanith Lee
Image
We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
Tanith Lee
Image
It was so useful to lie with the truth.
Tanith Lee
Image
No one is ever ordinary.
Tanith Lee