Charles De Lint Quotes

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

~ Charles De Lint

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

~ Charles De Lint

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

~ Charles De Lint

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

~ Charles De Lint

The best artists know what to leave out.

~ Charles De Lint

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

~ Charles De Lint

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

~ Charles De Lint

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

~ Charles De Lint