Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint
Charles de Lintis a Canadian writer of Dutch origins. In 1974 he met MaryAnn Harris, and married her in 1980. They live in Canada...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 December 1951
CountryCanada
goes-on stories made
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.
art inspiration appreciate
Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.
art children desire
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
lying twilight eye
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.
believe loss fairy
We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
together stories braids
It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are
matter easy-route routes
There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
children people magic
It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.
jobs cutting editing
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.
warrior world needs
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
wise wisdom thinking
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
art hard-work simple
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
love believe magic
It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.
healing beautiful-life stories
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.