368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

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.

We’re so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

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

You’ve got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won’t accidentally stumble upon a place that’s still in its natural state.

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.

We make a difference in the world. For good or bad, whether we want to or not, we make a difference. And I think it’s our choices that make the difference.

How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn’t look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.

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.

There was too much going on here – too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.