The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. — Charles de Lint Fairy Copy Share Image
Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get — Charles de Lint Life Copy Share Image
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“The minutes dragged by as they only did when you had no choice but to wait for something.” — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves. — Charles de Lint Lying Copy Share Image
The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next. — Charles de Lint Each day Copy Share Image
A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
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,… — Charles de Lint Art Copy Share Image
Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to… — Charles de Lint Advice Copy Share Image
Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out… — Charles de Lint Darkness Copy Share Image
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… — Charles de Lint Books Copy Share Image
Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever… — Charles de Lint Beauty Copy Share Image
You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All… — Charles de Lint Asian Copy Share Image
From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it.… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Maybe she couldn’t go. Maybe she wanted him to stay. But she knew enough not to try to hold him back if… — Charles de Lint Making friends 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 Analogies Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we wonder what it's like to feel normal," Maida said. "You know, like all the people you see out on the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“He had too much cat in his blood - a deep-rooted feline twitch that would travel the length of his nerves to… — Charles de Lint Cats Copy Share Image
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art… — Charles de Lint Appropriateness Copy Share Image
“Time had ceased to feel linear. She looked up through the crisscrossing branches, thick with buds, into the night sky. The stars… — Charles de Lint Night sky Copy Share Image
“Years ago, when I was about to go on a book tour for Someplace to Be Flying , my editor at the… — Charles de Lint Books Copy Share Image
“All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom. I devoured those books… — Charles de Lint Coming home Copy Share Image
It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories… — Charles de Lint Access Copy Share Image
“Not only do we all have magic, it's all around us as well. We just don't pay attention to it. Every time… — Charles de Lint Doing the right thing Copy Share Image
“One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting...… — Charles de Lint Books Copy Share Image
All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a… — 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 Daily life Copy Share Image
