179 Quotes by Tanith Lee

Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told – on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others – there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change – passing on the fire like a torch – forever and forever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all.

Goddess,” he said, “I would strongly advise you to continue this journey as you were – in your carriage.” “Vazkor,” I said, “I would strongly advise you not to advise me.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis – I find they act like chains.

Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing we have begun, at last, to understand.

He sang. The robot sang. He sang into my veins where my blood had been and where instead the notes and throbbing of the guitar now flowed. I could feel his song vibrating in my throat, as if I sang it too. I couldn’t see him. If the crowd parted and I saw him, I would die.

I’m not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I’m old, perhaps.

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.

It had occurred to me I was not courageous, had never been brave, only arrogant or unthinking.

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.