Trickster foxes appear in old stories gathered from countries and cultures all over the world – including Aesop’s Fables from ancient Greece, the “Reynard” stories of medieval Europe, the “Giovannuzza” tales of Italy, the “Brer Fox” lore of the American South, and stories from diverse Native American traditions.

— Terri Windling

Terri Windling Quotes

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

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

— Terri Windling

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

— Terri Windling

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

I’d like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.

— Terri Windling

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

— 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 folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

— Terri Windling

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

— Terri Windling

About Actors

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

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

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

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.

— Terri Windling

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

— 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

Trickster foxes appear in old stories gathered from countries and cultures all over the world – including Aesop’s Fables from ancient Greece, the “Reynard” stories of medieval Europe, the “Giovannuzza” tales of Italy, the “Brer Fox” lore of the American South, and stories from diverse Native American traditions.

— Terri Windling

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