64 Quotes by Terri Windling

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

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

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.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

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.

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

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

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

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