Quotes
If there really was such as thing as reincarnation, and I could come back as anyone, it would be as a Marina-Warner-type scholar. But there's a role for popularizers, too.
If it were brand-new, with no roots in the old material, would it still be folklore? I don't know.
I've worked with a number of the people I admire most, like Brian and Wendy Froud, Thomas Canty, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Midori Snyder, Ellen Steiber.
I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
I've been doing this for 20 years.
I've always been a bit nomadic. Even when I was an editor in New York, I maintained a place in Boston, and when I moved up to Boston after that, I maintained a place in New York. I've often lived in two places at once, so it comes naturally to me.
I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.
I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
I'll always regret that I never met Angela Carter. She was one of my two major inspirations in life, the other being Adrienne Segur, a French illustrator in the 1950s-1960s.
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'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.
I was a great fan of Jim Henson.
I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.
I think that it's the nature of folklore to be rooted in old tradition, and what's new is what we add to the old material.
I tend to work on about 10 different things at once. I'm not a very linear person.
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.
I hope that at least a handful of the writers working today with the old material will still be read 200 years from no.
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
I don't like to trash anyone's fiction, really, unless it's written cynically. Then I wish it would just slink away with its tail between its legs.