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January 14, 2013

Quote – People More Capable of Evil Than Creatures From Legend

“Men were far more capable of evil and cruelty than any creature out of legend.” -Charles de Lint – Mulengro (Orb 2003)

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January 10, 2013

Quote – Spread Word of Wonders Encountered on Earth

“You must spread the word of all the wonders you encounter in your days on earth. You must tell every being that breathes – all the animals and all the people – about the marvels of the place you share.” -Timothy Findley – “The Unicorn and the Grapevine” in The Monkey King & Other Stories Edited by Griffin Ondaatje (Harper...

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January 8, 2013

Quote – Young Always Surrounded by Monsters

“Who were the monsters, though? I guess we were surrounded by them. The young always are.” – Ursula Pflug – Airport Shoes (Strange Horizons http://www.strangehorizons.com/2007/20071126/airportshoes-f.shtml )

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December 19, 2012

Quote – Everyone Wants To Go Home

“Everyone wants to go home. That’s what home is. Home is the place you want to be coming to, even when you wish you were leaving it. The world is only so big and a man can only travel so far before he finds himself curving back to where he started from.” -Helen Marshall Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine, 2012)...

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December 16, 2012

Quote – All I Really Believe in is Art

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December 11, 2012

Quote – Drawing Ideas Out Of Your Head and Putting Them Onto Paper

“He taught me how to draw. He showed me how to get it down, from here… where it’s bright and amazing and to – bam! … here on the paper. He taught me that your hand wicks visions out of your head onto the paper. That’s why it’s called ‘drawing’. And it works the other way too. The brush sucks...

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December 9, 2012

Quote – Writing Helps Us Make Sense Of Things

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December 4, 2012

Quote – Story Creatures Unleashed On Humanity

“These story creatures remain caged inside our heads and our souls, until we write them into freedom, releasing them into the world, unleashing them on an unsuspecting humanity.” -Douglas Smith – “Author’s Introduction” to Chimerascope

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December 2, 2012

Quote – Adolescence a Universe All By Itself

“Any time I feel like I’m starting to adjust to this world, I can count on her to remind me there are depths of weirdness I haven’t explored yet. Adolescence is another universe all by itself.” -DD Barant Death Blows (St Martin’s, 2010)

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November 28, 2012

Quote – Fiction Tells Emotional Truths

“The lies in fiction are such an effective way to tell emotional truths.” -Charles de Lint – the Fields Beyond the Fields. In The Very Best of Charles de Lint.

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