We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

Terri Windling

Categorized in : Unique Differences Passion

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

talent people art

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.

sublime age dark

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.

heart jobs book

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.

land soul journey

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

plot done world

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

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

reader might average

A good novel editor is invisible. by Terri Windling

A good novel editor is invisible.

invisible editors novel

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.

desert girl heart

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.

heart children reality

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .

real fire thinking

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.

music tunes native-american

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.

nature jobs thinking

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!

impact technology new-york

I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months... by Terri Windling

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

six-months home years

I was a great fan of Jim Henson. by Terri Windling

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

great-fans fans

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own visio... by Terri Windling

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

editors vision book

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

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

written-word stronger film

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

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

academic artist

Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in trouble. And this is what she did...and what he did...and how they learned to survive it. This is what they did...and why one failed...and why another triumphed in the end. And I know that it's true, because I danced at their wedding and drank their very best wine.

girl wine boys

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.

passion girl love