Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee
Tanith Leewas a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book, and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award, for her book Death's Master...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 September 1947
hope heart ambition
Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.
cynical idealist
No one more cynical than an idealist.
pirate fascinated
Pirates have always fascinated me.
book reading world
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.
vampire fiction horror
Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
writing somewhere-else things-i-love
Im 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 Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
publishing
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
supernatural-beings people i-can
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.
important influence
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
mother children fairy-stories
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
writing feelings wish
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.
mean dark light
The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.
executioners primitive rite
Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.
writing opinion comeback
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.