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
memories moving thinking
I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.
spheres remember artwork
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?
real dark men
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
travel done spirituality
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.
thinking hands puppets
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
inspiration dark light
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
thinking world-suffering people
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 perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.
religious mistake apples
There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.
answers guessing looks
Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
magic needs
Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.
artist pigment best-artist
The best artists know what to leave out.
life ideas appreciate
We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
life kindness magic
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
different invisible
When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.