Charles De Lint Quotes
Top 99 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles De Lint
Charles De Lint Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
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.
Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
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 and mind.
It's not something you can prove ... I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.
There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.
There was too much going on here
too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.
It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
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 story.
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
I don't know what's waiting for us when we die
something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
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 born bad, do it?
The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place.
Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.
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 me again.
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.
Though the three of them were unrelated by blood, they were sisters all the same. In the heart, where it mattered.
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.
My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.
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.
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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.
Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
Everything, everybody wanted to lay claim to a piece of your soul. And if they couldn't have it, they made you pay for it in guilt.