Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over… — Charles de Lint Lies 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
[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one. — Charles de Lint Friendship Copy Share Image
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me. — Charles de Lint Hands Copy Share Image
Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives. — Charles de Lint Dull Copy Share Image
I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other. — Charles de Lint Believe Copy Share Image
It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture. — Charles de Lint Bigger 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
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
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
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art… — Charles de Lint Appropriateness 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
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
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or… — Charles de Lint Always believe 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
“I figure all oracular devices are just a way for us to focus on what we already know, but can’t quite grab… — Charles de Lint Things happen 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
What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you… — Charles de Lint Bear Copy Share Image
“If you cherish something enough", she told me, "it doesn't matter how old or worn or useless it's become; your caring for… — Charles de Lint Cherish Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but… — Charles de Lint Being true Copy Share Image
The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is… — Charles de Lint Belief Copy Share Image
Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it… — Charles de Lint Changed Copy Share Image
She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had… — Charles de Lint Accepted Copy Share Image
Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves… — Charles de Lint Anger inside 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 Book Copy Share Image
“What if time's not linear, the way people think it is? What if the past, present and future are all going on… — Charles de Lint Past present Copy Share Image
A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still… — Charles de Lint Body Copy Share Image
I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's… — Charles de Lint Band Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt… — Charles de Lint Grace Copy Share Image
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first… — Charles de Lint Cold 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
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to… — Charles de Lint Ability Copy Share Image
Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And… — Charles de Lint Broken 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 Appeals Copy Share Image
Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it,… — Charles de Lint Help me 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
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much… — Charles de Lint Austin Copy Share Image
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