Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of. Charles de Lint More Quotes by Charles de Lint More Quotes From Charles de Lint It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture. Charles de Lint bigger sometimes way The best artists know what to leave out. Charles de Lint best-artist pigment artist It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn. Charles de Lint followers important personality Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is. Charles de Lint way It was all cheese and applause. Charles de Lint applause cheese Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley. Charles de Lint sleep song believe I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold. Charles de Lint writing believe book 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? Charles de Lint cities night book Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand. Charles de Lint notebook growing-up artist 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. Charles de Lint memories moving thinking We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Charles de Lint storytelling goes-on stories I've always been interested in the outsider. Charles de Lint outsiders But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away. Charles de Lint stories remember people As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't. Charles de Lint desire children art Under the skin, intense fires burn. Charles de Lint spirituality skins fire The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me. Charles de Lint puppets hands thinking When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different. Charles de Lint invisible different When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place. Charles de Lint knowing doors believe The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn Charles de Lint important sleep looks It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are Charles de Lint braids stories together
