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Tanith Lee Quotes - Page 4

All Quotes Hate Writing

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

Lying

I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

Father, Writing, Mad

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

Extravagance, Way, Subtle

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

Humble, Pulpit, Priests

Tanith Lee (1997). “The Book of the Beast”, p.25, The Overlook Press

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.

Silly, School, Actresses

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

Book, Practice, Stories

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

Writing, People, Complexes

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

Thinking, Storyteller

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

Would Be, Film, Intrigued

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.

Care, Film, Ifs

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

Casting, Vote, Genre

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

Flower, Roots, Hundred

Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”

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