Terri Windling Quotes

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• The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and…
• Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.
• 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…
• 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…
• Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.
• I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
• I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new…
• 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…
• What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
• I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.
• 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.…
• 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…
• A good novel editor is invisible.
• 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…
• When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.

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