Judith Tarr Quotes
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So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.
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It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.
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Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.
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A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
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Yes, I do have a soft spot for complicated villains who can't help themselves.
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Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.
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Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.
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The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.
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I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting.
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Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.