Judith Tarr Quotes

United States, Science Fiction Writer
January 30, 1955

Judith Tarr (born in Augusta, Maine) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. She received her B.A. in Latin and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1976, and has an M.A. in Classics from Cambridge University, and an M.A. and PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale University. She taught Latin at Wesleyan University from 1990 to 1993.

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.

Judith Tarr
- Women
- Matter
- Lives
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.

Judith Tarr

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.

Judith Tarr
It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.

Judith Tarr
- Writing
- Woman
- Fantasy
Yes, I do have a soft spot for complicated villains who can't help themselves.

Judith Tarr
A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

Judith Tarr
Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.

Judith Tarr
- Work
- Power
- Magic
The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

Judith Tarr
- Belief
- Facts
- Shows

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

Judith Tarr
- Future
- Knowledge
- Fiction
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.

Judith Tarr
- Soul
- Books
- Revelation