Charles de Lint Quotes

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always written it and loved the way words interact, in meaning and in sound.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

I love making up titles.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

I didn't study writing or drama or anything like that... that was not really a viable route for me.

I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.

I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.

There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short story, I wanted to write a novel. Now that I have attained, shall I say, a respectable age, and have had experiences, I feel much more interested in prose, in the novel. I feel that in a novel, for example, you can get in toothbrushes and all the paraphernalia that one finds in dally life, and I find this more difficult in poetry.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.