Charles De Lint Quotes

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.

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 and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.

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 teens. The difference is in the readers.

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

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.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

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?

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

I don't think the world works on merit.

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

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.

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.

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

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.

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales, " she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

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

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

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

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

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are.