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
“The techno-political thriller and the romance novel serve as antidotes to the imagination rather than stimulants to it. For this reason they… — Charles Baxter Air travel 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 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
“Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)” — Charles Baxter Charm Copy Share Image
You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were… — Charles Baxter Anguish Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when… — Charles Baxter Anthropomorphization Copy Share Image
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.… — Charles Baxter Bed 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
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.… — Charles Baxter Care Copy Share Image
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. — Charles Baxter Guy 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
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
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
“The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation.” — Charles Baxter Writing 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
At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world. — Charles Baxter Diversion Copy Share Image
The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness. — Charles Baxter Failure 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
“An unthinkable thought is not one that hasn't occurred to somebody, nor is it a thought that somebody considers to be wrong.… — Charles Baxter Dark night 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 Anecdotes 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
