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Terri Windling
American
Artist
Always
American
Artist
Folklore
Long
You
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I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
Terri Windling
Looking
Gems
Missed
Also
Reader
Might
Average
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
Terri Windling
You
Walk
Folklore
Read
Masters
Go
Artist
Woods
Storyteller
Galleries
Need
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.
Terri Windling
Become
Live
Folklore
Indigenous
More
More And More
Also
Years
Hispanic
American
Southwest
Native
Native American
Land
Fascinated
Now
Recent
Recent Years
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.
Terri Windling
Heart
Girl
Young
Had
Particular
Surprised
Did
Southwest
Stole
Young Girl
Interest
Desert
Extent
I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.
Terri Windling
Time
Year
Months
My Time
Divide
Arizona
Between
Six
Place
England
Each
Homes
I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
Terri Windling
You
Living
Only
Student
Count
Been
Years
England
Last
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Terri Windling
World
Old
Before
Seven
Plots
About
Shakespeare
Only
How
Done
Old Adage
Them
Adage
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
Terri Windling
Past
Find
Folklore
About
Gives
Dialogue
Interesting
Storytellers
Centuries
Us
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.
Terri Windling
Best
You
World
Old
Corner
Find
Folklore
About
Stuff
Tales
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Around
Came
Where
Fantasy
Old Stuff
Right
Things
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.
Terri Windling
Best
Nature
Me
Job
First
Think
Spent
First Job
Terms
Learned
Because
Editor
Editorial
Years
Offered
Being
Storyteller
Much
Thing
Assistant
A good novel editor is invisible.
Terri Windling
Good
Invisible
Editor
Novel
But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
Terri Windling
Me
Word
Stronger
Written
Written Word
Always
Than
Really
Film
I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.
Terri Windling
Academic
Artist
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.
Terri Windling
Age
Experience
Dark
Reflect
Range
Horrors
Brutal
Always
Been
Sublime
Times
Human
Stories
Human Experience
Less
Each
Lived
Now
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.
Terri Windling
Hope
Myth
Other
Way
Some
Small
Through
Tales
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Been
Very
Literature
Public
Succeeding
Fantasy
Us
Working
Hard
Media
Consciousness
Bring
Number
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.
Terri Windling
Long
Latin
Latin American
Has-Been
Magic
New
Around
Been
Label
American
Modern
Form
Literature
Realism
Popularity
Specific
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.
Terri Windling
Music
Kind
Folk
Folk Music
Except
Like
Lot
American
Any
Celtic
Native
Native American
Tunes
American Music
Show
Show Tunes
Early
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!
Terri Windling
Work
Technology
Live
Changed
Impact
About
Writers
Since
New
Editors
Get
York
New York
Fantasy
England
Lives
Publisher
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