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Terri Windling
American • Artist
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Collected Meditations
Showing 29 quotesI have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.— Terri Windling
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
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.— 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
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
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
I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.— Terri Windling
My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.— Terri Windling
I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.— 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
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