A good novel editor is invisible.

- Terri Windling

Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for s…

- 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 fol…

- Terri Windling

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

- Terri Windling

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…

- Terri Windling

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

- 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 l…

- Terri Windling

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, int…

- Terri Windling

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

- Terri Windling