Charles de Lint

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ”

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. ”

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. ”

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since. ”

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