British author (1947- )
If you run away from trouble, it always follows.
TANITH LEE
Wolf Tower
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
And their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event.
TANITH LEE
Night's Master
Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
TANITH LEE
Delirium's Mistress
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
Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.
TANITH LEE
Night's Master
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
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
Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.
TANITH LEE
Night's Master
The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
TANITH LEE
Death's Master