Tanith Lee Quotes

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

Love, Writing, Real

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.
Tanith Lee

Women, Men, Strong

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
Tanith Lee

Start, Dead, Gods

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee

Mother, Her, Child

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
Tanith Lee

Vote, Dislike, Irrelevant

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.
Tanith Lee

Love, Care, Films

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

Work, Films, Screen

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
Tanith Lee

Love, Beginning, Writers

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
Tanith Lee

After, Wonderful, Makes

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
Tanith Lee

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
Tanith Lee

Writing, Complex, Manner

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.
Tanith Lee

Selfish, Writing, Person

No one is ever ordinary.
Tanith Lee

Pirates have always fascinated me.
Tanith Lee

Pirates, Fascinated

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
Tanith Lee

Important, Influence, Writer

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
Tanith Lee

Play, Fascinated

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
Tanith Lee

Book, Old, Tell

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
Tanith Lee

True, Writing, Sure

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

School, Said, Wanted

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.
Tanith Lee

Work, Feeling, Wish

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
Tanith Lee

Love, Writing, Through

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.
Tanith Lee

Good, Writing, Enough

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: September 19, 1947

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