“After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.” — Charles Baxter Addiction Copy Share Image
“Experience and disappointments had made us methodical.” — Charles Baxter Disappointments Copy Share Image
“Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)” — Charles Baxter Charm Copy Share Image
I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real. — Charles Baxter Being real Copy Share Image
Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11. — Charles Baxter Character Copy Share Image
“I felt as though I were in the presence of one of God's more complicated pranks.” — Charles Baxter Pranks Copy Share Image
You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story… — Charles Baxter Anecdote Copy Share Image
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter Books 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
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters. — Charles Baxter Books Copy Share Image
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter Books Copy Share Image
As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them… — Charles Baxter Calm Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the… — Charles Baxter Air Copy Share Image
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in… — Charles Baxter Books 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
“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
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
“His was the kind of beauty for which you would pay the price of a lifetime of sorrow and all the varieties… — Charles Baxter Beauty Copy Share Image
It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards… — Charles Baxter Awards Copy Share Image
“Here's a profundity, the best I can do: sometimes you just know… You just know when two people belong together. I had… — Charles Baxter Discipline Copy Share Image
“She'd like to say something about the metaphors of space. She won't, but she'd like to. In many religions, the sun is… — Charles Baxter Metaphor Copy Share Image
“Of course they were children, he knew that, and that wasn't it. They gave off a terrible glow. They had the blank… — Charles Baxter Angels Copy Share Image
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have… — Charles Baxter Character 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 Car wash Copy Share Image
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive… — Charles Baxter Anxious 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 Anymore 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
You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't… — Charles Baxter Can't change Copy Share Image
The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness. — Charles Baxter Failure Copy Share Image
“The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.” — Charles Baxter Addiction 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 Just Told Copy Share Image
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Books Copy Share Image
“As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of… — Charles Baxter Hansel and gretel Copy Share Image
“Their imaginations put the scene on a film loop. Guiltily, they watched it until their mental screens began to wash the rest… — Charles Baxter Cinema 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 Behalf Copy Share Image
Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have… — Charles Baxter Discipline 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
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story.… — Charles Baxter Couple Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action… — Charles Baxter Action Copy Share Image
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