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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
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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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.
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Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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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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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
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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.
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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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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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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs. And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
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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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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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Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
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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 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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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
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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.
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