Best Charles de Lint Quotations
- 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 darkness… Already Knows
- Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do… Alphabetically
- I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.… Able
- I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write… Any
- I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write… Actually Talk
- My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as… Book
- It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn. Followers
- I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life… Always Believe
- To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are… Adult
- Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true… Compromise
- Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a… Analogies
- It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer. Actual
- Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or… Appear
- I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who… All
- The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details… Applied
- What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves. From
- There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very… Answering
- The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up… Any
- By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. Enlarged
- 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 let happen to… Excuse
- The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like… Art
- Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart… Binds
- I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. Happiness
- Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? All
- Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. Funny
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