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Charles De Lint Inspirational Quotes (102)

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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
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As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
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Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
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The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.
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I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.
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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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