When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“You can not figure out love without figuring out death, too, but the effort it takes can knock the wind out of… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“it helps that in michigan everyone goes inside from november through april. but from may until october they are outside, on display,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“You fall in love with someone not because he's nice to you or can read your mind but because, when he kisses… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Making love to him was like going through a car wash, except you came out dirtier and more alive at the other… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Gurov, discovers that the most important features of life that you want to talk about cannot be spoken of in polite society.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do not fall… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Anyway, what I've just told you was what prompted the chair incident. I had grown big, and he was trying to belittle me.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
