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Terri Windling (born December 3, 1958 in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. Windling has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection The Armless Maiden appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. She received the Solstice Award in 2010, which honors "individuals with a significant impact on the speculative fiction field." Windling's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Lithuanian, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.

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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.

Land, Live, Native American, Southwest, Years

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.

Fresh, Keep, People, Please, Reading, Trying

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

Book, Editors, Good, Invisible, Vision

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. . . .

Fire, Real, Side, Thinking, Unknown

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

Endings, Happy, Happy Endings, Journey, Stills, Won

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 concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

Children, Heart, Reality, Unless, Widely

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

Adults, Business, Fantasy, Fiction, Publishers

We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

Differences, Manic, Passion, Passions, Unique

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.

Actual, Journey, Land, Movement, Soul, Trek

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

Average, Gems, Looking, Might, Reader

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

Fan, Fans, Great Fans, Henson, Jim

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

Academic, Artist, Folklorist

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Actors, Art, Filmmaking, Fine, Movie

We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend. From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

Anywhere, Art, Obsessions, Passion, Terminally, Unique

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

Art, Happiness, Like, People, Talent

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 small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.

Children, Complexity, Delight, Once Upon A Time, Tales

A good novel editor is invisible.

Editor, Editors, Good, Invisible, Novel

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

Centuries, Dialogue, Folklore, Giving, Interesting, Past

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

Academics, Hate, Hats, Material, Respect

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

Math, Scientist, Skills

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