A good novel editor is invisible.

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A good novel editor is invisible.

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

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

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

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.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

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

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 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.

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!

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

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.

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

In your heart I can still hear a beat for every time you kiss me. And when were apart I know how much you miss me I can feel your love for me in your heart.

'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.

It's twilight. It's the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...the end of another day, the return of the night.

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

Hezbollah is not fighting for Syria. Hezbollah is not fighting for Iran. Hezbollah is fighting for Lebanon.

You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

Protect those who protect you.

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.