Top 29 Quotes by 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.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A good novel editor is invisible.

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

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