179 Quotes by Tanith Lee

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.

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.

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.

Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate – to destroy his own life – for he was invulnerable. A terrible predicament he was in, to be utterly suicidal, and unable to perish.

Sometimes, you can’t help seeing yourself as the hero of your own story.

No man to lord, no child to hold.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that’s where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe.

I do not think I was afraid. There must be substance to breed fear, and I was hollow.

I haven’t changed. Something’s happened to me, that’s all.