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.

- Charles De Lint

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

- Charles De Lint

I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these …

- Charles De Lint

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or wha…

- Charles De Lint

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

- Charles De Lint

I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I w…

- Charles De Lint

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

- Charles De Lint

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a h…

- Charles De Lint

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

- Charles De Lint