Terri Windling Quotes

We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

A good novel editor is invisible.

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.