Charles de Lint Quotes

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

You have to believe the magic to see it.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.