“I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?”
Charles de Lint (1951) author
"Baiting the Hook", p. 42
Memory and Dream (1994)
“As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.”
October 25, 1995, p. 233
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)
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