01c. 1951 ADCan you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?Charles de Lint / quote ↗
02c. 1951 ADThere's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you getCharles de Lint / quote ↗
03c. 1951 ADI'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.Charles de Lint / quote ↗
04c. 1951 ADIf you cherish something enough", she told me, "it doesn't matter how old or worn or useless it's become; your caring for it immediately raises its value in somebody else's eyes. It's just like rehab- a body's got to believe in their own worth before anybody can start fixing them, but most people need someone to believe in them before they can start believing in themselves.Charles de Lint / quote ↗
05c. 1951 ADLife is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.Charles de Lint / quote ↗
07c. 1951 ADThe 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.Charles de Lint / quote ↗
08c. 1951 ADOften 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.Charles de Lint / quote ↗
