Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. — Charles de Lint Art Copy Share Image
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. — Charles de Lint Change Copy Share Image
That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. — Charles de Lint Inspirational Copy Share Image
That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. — Charles De Lint Invisible Copy Share Image
“living in an environment I can't control doesn't scare me. I'm partial to the surprises.” — Charles de Lint Environment Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. — Charles de Lint Fairy 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
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
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 Mess 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
“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 Available 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
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
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
Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a… — Charles de Lint Care 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… — Charles de Lint Believe 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 Better world Copy Share Image
Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and… — Charles de Lint Ads Copy Share Image
The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters… — Charles de Lint Book Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Careers Copy Share Image
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and… — Charles de Lint Belief Copy Share Image
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we… — Charles de Lint Accountability Copy Share Image
She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd… — Charles de Lint Deer Copy Share Image
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal… — Charles de Lint Character Copy Share Image
You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make… — Charles de Lint Cutting Copy Share Image
It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery… — Charles de Lint Bedroom 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 Deeper 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
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the… — Charles de Lint Concerned Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to… — Charles de Lint Able Copy Share Image
My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I… — Charles de Lint Character Copy Share Image
It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was… — Charles de Lint Believe Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with a youthful prospective. Don't forget- no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one… — Charles de Lint Youthful Copy Share Image
I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how… — Charles de Lint Behinds Copy Share Image
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I… — Charles de Lint Book Copy Share Image
The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether… — Charles de Lint Imagination Copy Share Image
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but… — Charles de Lint Death Copy Share Image
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll… — Charles de Lint Excuse Copy Share Image
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn… — Charles de Lint Art Copy Share Image
