Charles de Lint Quotes

I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

My movies are always about the kooks and the outsiders.

I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

I've always identified with the misfits.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

All of my friends are oddities.

I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don't belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don't fit, coupled with huge ambitions.

I'm a little unusual in that I've always done a lot of things.

It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.

I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

I love things which are different and shows which are different.

The monsters I thought about are those that don't fit in - those who think differently from the majority, the people of exception, outsiders. I wish that society would place more importance and value on these kinds of monsters.

I'd watch shows like 'The Kids in the Hall' or 'Twin Peaks,' and I'd see weird people being celebrated and appreciated without compromising their weirdness. On 'The Facts of Life,' I'd see girls who were pudgy, beautiful, popular, tomboyish - many ways of being female - and I'd feel quietly reassured.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

It's hard to pigeonhole me.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

Ultimately, I've learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

I've always been attracted to weirdos.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair.

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.