Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint
Charles de Lintis a Canadian writer of Dutch origins. In 1974 he met MaryAnn Harris, and married her in 1980. They live in Canada...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 December 1951
CountryCanada
tattoo heart skins
Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
book night cities
I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
choices accountability
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
dream memories want
... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.
children parent problem
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
night shadow hiding
You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
dull would-be mystery
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
inspirational goal doe
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
lying skins way
Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
happiness smile laughter
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
dark night years
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 do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.
sight fey world
The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
lying night two
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
inspirational children kids
Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.