“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
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
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 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
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
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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people… — Charles de Lint Going away 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 Copy Share Image
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a… — Charles de Lint Ability Copy Share Image
“Yes, no. I don't know. It's all so confusing. I'm just a kid." Abuelo smiled. "You kept saying that while you told… — Charles de Lint 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm… — Charles de Lint Experiments 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 Copy Share Image
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So,… — Charles de Lint Book 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 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
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 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 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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
