Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Stills
Workings
Still
Truths
Body
Mostly
May
Considered
Work
Carry
Elements
Eternal
Knowledge
Reviled
More quotes by Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
Charles de Lint
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
Charles de Lint
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
Charles de Lint
One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
Charles de Lint
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
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.
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
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
Charles de Lint
We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
Charles de Lint
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
You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
Charles de Lint
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Charles de Lint
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles de Lint
I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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
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
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
