Charles de Lint Quotes - Page 8

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• I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

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  Book, Writing, Seven

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• I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.

  Charles de Lint

  Attitude, Writing, Character

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• Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.

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  Ignorance, People, Dumb

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.98, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Real, Book, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

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  Believe, Magic, Different

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.49, Macmillan

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• I don't think the world works on merit.

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  Thinking, World, Merit

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.26, Macmillan

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• Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

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  Empathy, Mind, Wizardry

  "Into the Green". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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• Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

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  Wisdom, Believe, Left

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• 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 limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

  Charles de Lint

  Forever, Stories, Goes On

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• Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

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  Heart, Writing, Thinking

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• [She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

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  New Friends, Meetings, Recognizing

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• There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page.

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  Feel Better, Giving, Forever

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• Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

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  Children, Drawing, Effort

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.

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  Children, People, House

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

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  Fun, Adventure, Mean

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Moonlight & Vines”, p.379, Macmillan

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• I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

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  Death, Waiting, Ready

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

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  Lying, One Day, Rabbits

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• Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

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  Writing, Different, Use

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Charles de Lint". Interview with Charles Tan, www.sfsignal.com. September 9, 2010.

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• The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm free to experiment more. If it doesn't work out, I've only lost a week or two of work. If I screw up a novel I've lost at least a year's worth of work. But the nice thing is that those experiments with short stories can be carried over to novels when the experiments do work.

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  Nice, Years, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Charles de Lint". Interview with Charles Tan, www.sfsignal.com. September 9, 2010.

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