Tanith Lee Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Pirates have always fascinated me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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