Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.” — Charles de Lint Forest Copy Share Image
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. — Charles de Lint Child Copy Share Image
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better. — Charles de Lint Feeling better Copy Share Image
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. — Charles de Lint Kindness Copy Share Image
I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Myslela jsem si, že se to stává, když je člověk starý." Denzil se zakuckal. "A ty jsi poměrně stará, myslím. Sedmnáct, není-liž… — Charles de Lint Astronomy Copy Share Image
If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and… — Charles de Lint Alive Copy Share Image
I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out… — Charles de Lint Death Copy Share Image
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what… — Charles de Lint Followers Copy Share Image
We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing… — Charles de Lint Circle of friends Copy Share Image
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in… — Charles de Lint Attention Copy Share Image
Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense… — Charles de Lint Artist Copy Share Image
The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're… — Charles de Lint Ancestor Copy Share Image
The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in… — Charles de Lint Bounds Copy Share Image
There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people… — Charles de Lint Change Copy Share Image
“She shrugged. Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious… — Charles de Lint Failure Copy Share Image
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… — Charles de Lint Attention Copy Share Image
“Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place. — Charles de Lint First place 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
It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself… — Charles de Lint Baby Copy Share Image
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. — Charles de Lint Fool Copy Share Image
The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear. — Charles de Lint Advice Copy Share Image
You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself. — Charles de Lint Attitude Copy Share Image
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter. — 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
It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit… — Charles de Lint Fun Copy Share Image
“Nothing strikes me as truly weird,” Jilly told him. “There’s only stuff I haven’t figured out yet.” — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
