All Terri Windling Quotes
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.
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My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.
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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.
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I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
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I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.
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But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
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