Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities. — Charles de Lint Health Copy Share Image
All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin. — Charles de Lint Heart Copy Share Image
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is… — Charles de Lint Art Copy Share Image
As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I… — Charles de Lint Character Copy Share Image
“They have alls these laws and social boundaries to keep the worst of them in check. The problem is, villains and bullies… — Charles de Lint Bullies Copy Share Image
What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there… — Charles de Lint Competition Copy Share Image
Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Thing that people forget is, we all die, right? We all die and no matter what we do, the universe is going… — Charles de Lint Universe Copy Share Image
The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves.… — Charles de Lint Change Copy Share Image
“I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy any… — Charles de Lint Book Copy Share Image
The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering… — Charles de Lint Beauty Copy Share Image
But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on… — Charles de Lint Burden 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
“I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be… — Charles de Lint Friendship 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
Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody… — Charles de Lint Lying Copy Share Image
“Every book tells a different story to the person who reads it. How they perceive that book will depend on who they… — Charles de Lint Book Copy Share Image
“The trouble with magic is that it never really lets go. If you work one magic to undo another, you might end… — Charles de Lint First place Copy Share Image
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we… — Charles de Lint Dream Copy Share Image
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my… — Charles de Lint Book Copy Share Image
Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have… — Charles de Lint Compromise Copy Share Image
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its… — Charles de Lint Dark 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… — Charles de Lint Biology Copy Share Image
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when… — Charles de Lint Dark Copy Share Image
The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman.… — 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
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 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
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
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
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
