A good novel editor is invisible.
Terri Windling

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
Terri Windling

Filmmaking can be a fine art.
Terri Windling

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

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

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

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.
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 stole my heart to the extent it did.
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 bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
Terri Windling


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

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

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.
Terri Windling

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
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 Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.
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, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
Terri Windling

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.
Terri Windling

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

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

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