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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life, " Katsa said. "Not even to save yours.""Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter. "I'd leave that part out.

The divine moment is the grace of life-change.

(Parentheses speakMore than we dare say out loudWhy, oh, why is that?)

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

I love my jazz hands!

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

People feel like they grew up with me.

On the set, I'm a businessman.