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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.
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 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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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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She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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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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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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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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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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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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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