The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set he… - Charles de Lint

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The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint (born 22 December 1951) is a Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician.

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Pen Names: Samuel M. Key

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If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place. - Charles de Lint

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