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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible.

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

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

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

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

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

A good novel editor is invisible.

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.

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

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

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

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

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

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

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

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

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

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

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

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