179 Quotes by Tanith Lee

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

My interest in reincarnation... I explored in a number of works.

I don't have specific aims. Only to keep writing. I need more time, as I said, perhaps 25 hours in a day would be helpful.

But all lives are important, all people are important, because everyone is a book. Some people just have easier access to it.

I have been approached several times by the movie industry, who have sometimes taken out options on my work. So far nothing has come of any of this.

What I like about vampires is what I like about everything I want to write about, the depths and heights, the pain and joy. Life.

There are the characters who die but who you follow after death, and they often lead much more interesting lives after they are dead! So the characters usually drive me along, but occasionally the plot has to come first. It can get sticky.

I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.

My parents were dancers, and we traveled around a lot, so I went to some very ropy schools where I learned a lot about being bullied and not a great deal about anything else.