Terri Windling

A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

— Terri Windling

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

— Terri Windling

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also…

— Terri Windling

We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and…

— Terri Windling

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert…

— Terri Windling

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new,…

— Terri Windling

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms…

— Terri Windling

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the…

— Terri Windling

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I…

— Terri Windling

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can…

— Terri Windling

The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes…

— Terri Windling

“Don’t be afraid to be weird, don’t be afraid to be different, don’t worry too much about what other people think. Whatever…

— Terri Windling

“I only laid the cobbles for the streets of Bordertown; it took all of us, an entire community, to bring the city…

— Terri Windling

“Some years ago, I read an article about two people in the arts (alas, I can’t remember who they were) who’d been…

— Terri Windling

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was…

— Terri Windling

Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century…

— Terri Windling

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most…

— Terri Windling

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the…

— Terri Windling

“I wish I could have known Barbara Bodichon -- and her whole vibrant circle of smart, fearless women friends. I'd like to…

— Terri Windling

“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various…

— Terri Windling

“New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far from New York),…

— Terri Windling

“Like many of the kids I write about, I once was a runaway myself—and a few (but not all) of the other…

— Terri Windling

“In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming…

— Terri Windling

“I love so many books and authors that it's hard to name just a few, but I'm always particularly excited when new…

— Terri Windling

“Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales — girls muted by magic or sworn to silence in order to…

— Terri Windling

“In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,' writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning…

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling