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Quotes by Charles DeLint

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
– Charles DeLint
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
– Charles DeLint
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
– Charles de Lint
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
– Charles de Lint
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
– Charles de Lint
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
– Charles de Lint
I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
– Charles de Lint
If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?
– Charles de Lint
It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
– Charles de Lint
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
– Charles de Lint
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
– Charles de Lint
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
– Charles de Lint
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
– Charles de Lint
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.
– Charles de Lint
That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
– Charles de Lint
The best artists know what to leave out.
– Charles de Lint
The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
– Charles de Lint
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
– Charles de Lint
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
– Charles de Lint
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
– Charles de Lint
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
– Charles de Lint
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.
– Charles de Lint
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
– Charles de Lint
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
– Charles de Lint
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
– Charles de Lint
Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
– 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