The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear. — 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 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's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it… — 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 want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them… — Charles de Lint 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 Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman. — Charles de Lint Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
... 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
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. — Charles de Lint Copy Share
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. — Charles de Lint Copy Share
