The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really… — 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every… — Charles de Lint 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 Copy Share Image
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me. — 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 was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or… — Charles de Lint 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 Copy Share Image
I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers)… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“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 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 of the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
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 Image
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
