368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes.

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.

The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

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.

Live intensely,” Joe tells me. “Live big. The cousins have a saying: ‘Walk large as trees, with the blood quick in you and swift-running.’ In other words, don’t let there be holes in your life where somebody else can creep into your head...

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.

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.

As far as I’m concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.