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Charles de Lint

Charles de Lint (born December 22, 1951) is a World Fantasy Award winning author. In 1974 he met MaryAnn Harris, and married her in 1980. They live in Canada.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Tags: Today, Truth, Passion

Charles de Lint

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

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Charles de Lint

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 friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

Tags: Love, Mother, Child

Charles de Lint

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.

Tags: Family, Love, Country

Charles de Lint

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

Tags: Positive, Live, Ignorance

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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.

Tags: Mind, Heart, Her

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I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Tags: Heart, Touch

Charles de Lint