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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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More quotes by Charles de Lint
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
Charles de Lint
Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
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
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.
Charles de Lint
We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
Charles de Lint
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.
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
It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.
Charles de Lint
It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
Charles de Lint
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.
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
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
Charles de Lint
Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
Charles de Lint
Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
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
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
Charles de Lint
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
Charles de Lint
