Charles de Lint

“We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limi...”

“I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as there are people--because each person pe...”

“I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I d...”

“Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of the old stories (Mallory, White, Brigg...”

“Years ago, when I was about to go on a book tour for Someplace to Be Flying, my editor at the time Terri Windling and I sat down to figure out what to call what I was writing for the intervi...”

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

“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.”

“One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.”

“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 friendsh...”

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

“I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?”

“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 att...”

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