Top 38 Terri Windling Quotes
#1. If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling
as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse.
Jane Yolen
#2. 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.
Terri Windling
#3. Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.
Terri Windling
#4. 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.
Terri Windling
#5. Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality
for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.
Terri Windling
#8. I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.
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#9. Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.
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#10. 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.
Terri Windling
#11. 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.
Terri Windling
#12. 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.
Terri Windling
#13. 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 material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
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#14. My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.
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#15. 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 passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
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#16. Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.
Terri Windling
#17. I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.
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#18. Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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 every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing.
Terri Windling
#22. There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Terri Windling
#23. 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 live in England and work for a New York publisher!
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#24. I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.
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#25. I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
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#27. There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
Terri Windling
#30. 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 it is that's original in you and your work might sometimes make you feel uncomfortable. That probably means you're on the right track, so just keep going.
Dare to be foolish.
Terri Windling
#31. But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
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#32. I only laid the cobbles for the streets of Bordertown; it took all of us, an entire community, to bring the city to life. And that's as it should be. Community, friendship, art: stirred together, they make a powerful magic. Used wisely, it can save your life. I know that it saved mine.
Terri Windling
#33. Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.
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#34. What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
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#35. I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
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