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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Remember
Writing
Thing
Wakes
Reader
Paper
Whether
True
Truth

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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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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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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was.
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You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
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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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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
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If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
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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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It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
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Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
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I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.
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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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