Words matter. These are the best Terri Windling Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.
The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.
When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn’t have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
Robert Jordan, whether he’s writing with passion or not, I don’t know.
A good novel editor is invisible.
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.
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat’s off to them.
I’m an artist, I’m not an academic folklorist.
My book collection is primarily in America, since that’s where I’ve lived most of my life.
I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That’s where the old stuff came from.
I’ve only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don’t count my student years.
I’m also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
There’s that old adage about how there’s only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare’s done them all before.
I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.
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.
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we’re succeeding in some small way.
