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Tanith Lee

"In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does."

-- Tanith Lee

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“The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.”
“I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.”
“I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment, that makes them think.”
“Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who speak Italian or Spanish to each other. It's been helpful to me to study and try to emulate that in that way.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.”
“I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.”
“Stubborn, snarly male.”

Source : Anne Bishop (2003). “The black jewels trilogy”, Roc
“When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL-- we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it.”

Source : Erik Fosnes Hansen (1996). “Psalm at Journey's End”, p.160, Macmillan

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