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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
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Samuel M. Key
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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?
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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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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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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.
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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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Don't start brooding about that, too, she says. Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting. -Lupita
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If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
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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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It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
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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 real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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.
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