Quotes by : Terri Windling

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell....

Back in the "leather and lace" eighties, I was the fantasy editor for a publishing company in New York....

Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture,....

So let us praise the distinctive pleasures of re-reading: that particular shiver of anticipation as you....

Rites–of–passage stories…were cherished in pre–literate societies not only for their entertainment....

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was....

New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far....

Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales — girls muted by magic or sworn to silence....

In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,' writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy,....

Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm....