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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs. And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
Charles de Lint
What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
Charles de Lint
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
Charles de Lint
Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
Charles de Lint
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
Charles de Lint
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
Charles de Lint
... 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.
Charles de Lint
I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
Charles de Lint
There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
Charles de Lint
I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
Charles de Lint
Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
Charles de Lint
Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
Charles de Lint
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
Charles de Lint
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
