 Filmmaking can be a fine art. |
| I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years. |
| I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed. |
| I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. |
| My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life. |
| A good novel editor is invisible. |
| What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. |
| Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know. |
| Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. |
| 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. |
| I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills. |
| There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. |
| 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. |
| I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place. |
| 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! |
| 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. |
| But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
