TANITH LEE QUOTES III

British author (1947- )

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. Writing is writing and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

TANITH LEE

Tabula Rasa, October 1994


The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

TANITH LEE

Death's Master

Tags: soul


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

TANITH LEE

Delirium's Mistress

Tags: love


Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

TANITH LEE

Night's Master

Tags: morning


Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.

TANITH LEE

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest


Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.

TANITH LEE

Hunting the Shadows

Tags: women


Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.

TANITH LEE

Metallic Love


Tales of heroes end in bliss.

TANITH LEE

Mortal Suns

Tags: heroes


Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

TANITH LEE

The Gods are Thirsty

Tags: history


It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

TANITH LEE

Red as Blood; or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

Tags: apathy