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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.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
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Samuel M. Key
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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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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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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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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.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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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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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
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I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
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 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
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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