Charles de Lint

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

— Charles de Lint

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

— Charles de Lint

I don't think the world works on merit.

— Charles de Lint

It was all cheese and applause.

— Charles de Lint

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.

— Charles de Lint

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

— Charles de Lint

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

— Charles de Lint

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

— Charles de Lint

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

— Charles de Lint

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

— Charles de Lint

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

— Charles de Lint

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

— Charles de Lint

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

— Charles de Lint

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

— Charles de Lint

Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

— Charles de Lint

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

— Charles de Lint

... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how…

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But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our…

— Charles de Lint

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and…

— Charles de Lint

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat…

— Charles de Lint

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume…

— Charles de Lint

“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

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to…

— Charles de Lint

“Have you ever noticed' I said 'how everyone says they want to be different, but as soon as they meet someone who…

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I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or…

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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…

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I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in…

— Charles de Lint

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but…

— Charles de Lint

I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I…

— Charles de Lint

“You hear this kind of thing, rednecks and their guys and--" "Don't call them that," I say. "They're just assholes. Most people…

— Charles de Lint

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen…

— Charles de Lint

“It's my diary", she'd explained. "Every mark I've had drawn on my skin connects me to where and who I've been- so…

— Charles de Lint

I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at…

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I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our…

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There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there…

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“The lonesome dark. That's what Jack called a night like this. When you were distanced from everything and everybody. Out on your…

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“I do know that the gardens of the first lands are still lying there, right under the skin of the world- pulsing…

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“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

People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach…

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“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