Charles de Lint Quotes

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge p...

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you do...

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all t...

If you cherish something enough", she told me, "it doesn't matter how old or worn or useless it's be...

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy ...

The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them i...

Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up f...

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any tw...

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us...

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it...

But if I could just get som ehint, some sign..." Conchita smiles, without humor, but with great affe...

She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this ...

Not only do we all have magic, it's all around us as well. We just don't pay attention to it. Every ...

I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my...

She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. ...

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that y...

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true....

Everybody has a soul." I turn to Pelly. "And that means you, too." "I'm not so sure of that," he say...

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possib...

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo...

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light....

All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the w...

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense o...

I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of...

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change thems...

It's my diary", she'd explained. "Every mark I've had drawn on my skin connects me to where and who ...

Everybody's got a true home—maybe not where they're living, butwhere their heart lives.

I do know that the gardens of the first lands are still lying there, right under the skin of the wor...

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she n...

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off,...

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories ...

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? T...

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so r...

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but m...

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tel...

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician....

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, ...

The best artists know what to leave out.

So she goes to see the Old Man of the Mountains–looks just like you, Bear. Same face, same hair. A b...

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the peopl...

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and...

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turn...

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience ...

I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy an...

I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend ...

There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's hap...

The real difference is that with fantasy—and by that I mean fantasy which can simultaneously tap int...

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays in...

T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surr...

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. No...

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make th...

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m ...

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet an...