“I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.” SoulFactsHomeNovelFolksHallsMarbleDreary Book:Fly leaves, by C.S.C. Source: Fly leaves, by C.S.C.
“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.” WayShouldChildrenDoeStillsBookSoulFeelingsJobsNightWishFeltNovelTakenStupidNormalAdultsTwentiesSevenKillingHatedUsaUsualRescuePublishersDay And NightManuscriptsDamnationDrudgery Author:Tanith Lee
“Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.” NeedsSoulReadingNovelConvictionEmploymentImmortalCakeGardeningOccasionalNeedlesVisitingSustenanceSpongesImmortal Soul Book:Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix Source: Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix