Quotes by Terri Windling

About Terri Windling:

Terri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. Windling has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection The Armless Maiden appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. She received the Solstice Award in 2010, which honors "individuals with a significant impact on the speculative fiction field." Windling's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Lithuanian, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.
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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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I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

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

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

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

Terri Windling

It's my birthday, by the way, and as of 2:05 this morning (the time of my birth in the middle of a snow storm on the Fort Dix army base in New Jersey) I'm 52 years old. I decided to say that because there's such in our culture for women...well, for e...

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For some young artists, it can take a bit of time to discover which tools (which medium, or genre, or career pathway) will truly suit them best. For me, although many different art forms attract me, the tools that I find most natural and comfortable ...

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Snow-melt in the stream: Mama Nature turning winter's storms into nourishment for the soil, fecundity, and beauty. This is what I must now learn to do with the stormy weather I've been passing through: turn it into beauty, turn it into art, so new li...

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... I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that crosses the river of blood into Faerie, that flies so high it is...

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Author Bio

  • NameTerri Windling
  • DescriptionAmerican writer and editor
  • BornDecember 3, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist