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Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Sees
Healing
Forget
Tell
Else
Stories
Way
World
Teens

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Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
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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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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
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The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.
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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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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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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
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I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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