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

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

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

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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

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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.

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I came to New York, straight out of college, wanting one thing in life to work on Jim Henson's film The Dark Crystal.

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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.

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Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

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I do think that we have writers today who are of the caliber of the great folklore writers of the past, like Hans Christian Andersen.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

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Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

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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.

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

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A good novel editor is invisible.

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Filmmaking can be a fine art.

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

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

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I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

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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.

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