There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more.… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Sara Kendell once read somewhere that the tale of the world is like a tree. The tale, she understood, did not so… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share
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… — Charles de Lint Copy Share
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. — Charles de Lint Copy Share
“Maybe she couldn’t go. Maybe she wanted him to stay. But she knew enough not to try to hold him back if he had… — Charles de Lint Copy Share
You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman. — Charles de Lint Copy Share
“You hear this kind of thing, rednecks and their guys and--" "Don't call them that," I say. "They're just assholes. Most people you run… — Charles de Lint Copy Share
Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share
When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share
How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share
... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have;… — Charles de Lint Copy Share
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. — Charles de Lint Copy Share
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. — Charles de Lint Copy Share
