368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

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

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.

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.

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

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

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.

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.