Charles de Lint Quotes & Sayings

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

“When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.”

“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.”

“The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.”

“The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.”

“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”

“Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.”

“Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?”

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

“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.”