Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the
choices we make that define who we really are.
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
Charles de LintIt's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
Charles de LintThe thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes.
Charles de LintLies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.
Charles de LintYou've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.
Charles de LintTag: jack-daw
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
Charles de LintTag: story storytelling once-upon-a-time
Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
Charles de LintPeople didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied the world's dreams, helped to make sense of the great human problems. Just as the dreams of individuals exist to give subconscious support to their conscious lives, so do myths serve as society's dreams. They uncover the dark, hidden places where mysteries dwell and can turn to nightmare if left untended. They make sense of injustice in archetypal terms. They give men and women a blueprint for how they may respond to success or failure, tragedy or joy.
Charles de LintWhen all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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