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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.


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LEE RADZIWILL I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil...
LEE HANEY I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh...
TANITH LEE I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
TANITH LEE I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don&#...
TANITH LEE I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma...
TANITH LEE At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE No one is ever ordinary.
TANITH LEE I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e...
TANITH LEE I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
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