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 distance echoes
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.
cutting thinking people
I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is
thinking mad genius
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
memories cat past
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
people stories remember
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.
fun world mystery
It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
good-mood sometimes mood
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
outsiders
I've always been interested in the outsider.
magic legends myth
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
kids kingdoms crosses
All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
mean mind austin
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.
notebook running writing
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.
real thinking analogies
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.
journey important answers
It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.