Quotes from Lisa Tuttle

I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.

My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'

The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

OBJECTS IN DREAMS MAY BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR

Spiritualists emphasize the importance of belief—and it is true. Skeptics are rarely, if ever, rewarded with proof of the impossible.

It was the feel of it, the love of it, not the thought: it was instinct and reflex and knowing the wind, and Maris was the wind.

I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.

Would that be so bad?" she asked softly. "To have your talents recognized, and use them for good? Isn't that what you want? Would it be so hard to take a more usual route, like everyone else, to put up with restrictions and being told what to do by people who aren't as clever as you—only for a year or two

Cerridwen – white goddess of death and creation.

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.