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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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Noodling
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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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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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Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
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The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.
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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 family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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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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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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