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. . . .
A good novel editor is invisible. - Terri Windling
A good novel editor is invisible.
- 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
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won. - Terri Windling
Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.
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
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…
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
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…
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. - Terri Windling
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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