Love Quote by Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee frames writing less as a craft bench and more as a possession: the work arrives "into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else". That slippery progression matters. She starts with the most practical explanation (ideas in the mind), then widens to the bodily ("through me"), then finally cracks open the door to the uncanny ("somewhere else") - a nod to inspiration as transmission, not manufacture. For a writer so associated with lush, dreamlike fantasy, the phrasing quietly defends the irrational as a legitimate engine of art.

The giddiness is almost punk in its refusal to perform solemnity. She calls it "the most extraordinary, exciting thing" without apologizing for the intensity. Then she undercuts any saintly narrative with a deliciously human pivot: "I'm very greedy". Greedy for what? Not money, not prestige - the quote doesn't even gesture toward audience. The hunger is for the sensation itself: the rush of channeling, the private high of making worlds appear. It's an insistence that creation can be pleasure, even appetite, not just discipline and suffering.

Contextually, Lee spent a career in genres that were often patronized as escapist or "too much" - too ornate, too dark, too feminine, too weird. This is a subtle counter-argument: if the work feels like it comes from "somewhere else", then excess isn't indulgence; it's fidelity. The subtext is permission. She gives herself, and by extension other writers, license to want it badly and enjoy it loudly.