Judith Tarr Quotes

The Seventies were an interesting time to be a reader or writer of fantasy. Tolkien was the great master. Lin Carter was resurrecting wonders of British and American fantasy from the early twentieth century in his Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series.

Judith Tarr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 30, 1955

Topics

GreatTimeAmericanInteresting

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

Joan Smalls

PeopleThinkNameSometimesSound

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

Jerry Spinelli

ChanceStoryThinkStandBetterYou

I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.

Andrea Riseborough

WorkWomenWomanPeoplePersonReal

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Jean Froissart

WorkTimePastForgeNobleAgain

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

John Rhys-Davies

ScienceQuestionsYouBackWhyAsk

I like down-to-earth people.

Amos Lee

PeopleLikeDown-To-Earth

I don't see things the way my parents do. They can look at a tree and see something amazing, whereas I just see a tree. That's not to say I don't appreciate its beauty. When I watch the sea in somewhere like Sardinia, I see the beauty in that.

Robin Van Persie

BeautySeaTreeParentsAmazingSay

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

Mary Ann Mobley

TimeMeKnowIllnessDiseaseMuch

One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!

Jordan Peterson

WomenMenYouOverThingsBeing

I never get lonely; even as a child, I didn't.

Diana Rigg

ChildLonelyNeverGetEven

I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'

Drew Carey

GoodCarMindRoadEnoughYear

I don't look at it as Hollywood or Bollywood, but, of course, my roots are here, and at the end of the day, it's about your roots. You can't take India out of me.

Deepika Padukone

DayMeRootsEnd Of The DayEndYou

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