CHARLES DE LINT QUOTES III

Canadian writer (1951- )


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I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.

CHARLES DE LINT
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The Onion Girl


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Tags: fairies


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.

CHARLES DE LINT

Someplace to Be Flying


It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Little Country

Tags: religion


You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Onion Girl

Tags: night


You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Onion Girl


All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Onion Girl


The moon likes secrets ... 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.

CHARLES DE LINT

Dreams Underfoot

Tags: moon


One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

CHARLES DE LINT

Memory and Dream

Tags: change


The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Onion Girl

Tags: magic


Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Onion Girl

Tags: stupidity


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

CHARLES DE LINT

"One Thing Leads to Another: An Interview with Charles de Lint", The Yalsa Hub, September 19, 2013

Tags: writing


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.

CHARLES DE LINT

"Music and Myth: A Conversation with Charles de Lint", The Internet Review of Science Fiction


As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.

CHARLES DE LINT

Dreams Underfoot


We chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.

CHARLES DE LINT

Moonlight & Vines

Tags: ghosts


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

CHARLES DE LINT

"Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", The Ivory and the Horn

Tags: desire


Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

CHARLES DE LINT

"Paperjack", Dreams Underfoot: The Newford Collection

Tags: astrology


Tattoos ... are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Mystery of Grace

Tags: tattoos


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.

CHARLES DE LINT

"One Thing Leads to Another: An Interview with Charles de Lint", The Yalsa Hub, September 19, 2013

Tags: books


There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories -- perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years -- and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

CHARLES DE LINT

Dreams Underfoot


If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

CHARLES DE LINT

Svaha

Tags: death