Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are — Charles de Lint Changes Copy Share Image
When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different. — Charles de Lint Different 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 Crosses Copy Share Image
There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird. — Charles de Lint Odd Copy Share Image
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. — Charles de Lint Ladders Copy Share Image
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. — Charles de Lint Compare 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
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. — Charles de Lint Goes on 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 Alley cats 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
Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat… — Charles de Lint Child Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and… — Charles de Lint Adults Copy Share Image
When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume… — Charles de Lint Assuming 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
... 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
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 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
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 Done 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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 Book review 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
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 Acres Copy Share Image
You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows. — Charles de Lint Hiding 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
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 Answers 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
