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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

#around #been #form #label #latin

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life. ↗

— Terri Windling

#book #collection #i #life #lived

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

#changed #editors #england #fantasy #get

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

#because #being #best #editor #editorial

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

#bring #consciousness #fairy #fairy tales #fantasy

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

— Terri Windling

#adage #before #done #how #old

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. ↗

— Terri Windling

#bit #business #called #fantasy #fiction

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

#always #british #celtic #celtic music #college

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! ↗

— Marie Windsor

#detective stories #doing #film #film noir #i

I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#had #i #nose #plastic #plastic surgery