It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is… — Charles Baxter Clarity 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… — Charles Baxter Be kind Copy Share Image
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters. — Charles Baxter Books Copy Share Image
“...Hell is the proof of God's failure or refusal to love.” — Charles Baxter Failure Copy Share Image
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Books 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 Life 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 Fall in love 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… — Charles Baxter Mean 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… — 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 Intelligence 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 Inches 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 Love Copy Share Image
Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Oh”, he said. He was trying to smile, but it was a brave smile, a sickroom smile, and I was sorry I… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter Books Copy Share Image
“The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.” — Charles Baxter Addiction Copy Share Image
“In a relentlessly commercial culture, the communication of our private meanings has been vaguely corrupted around the edges by the toxic idioms… — Charles Baxter Communication 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 Fall in love Copy Share Image
[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation. — Charles Baxter Pain Copy Share Image
“Nabokov once said that the price of being a writer was sleepless nights. But, Nabokov added slyly, if the writer doesn’t have… — Charles Baxter Sleepless night Copy Share Image
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