“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
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
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
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Friendly 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
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 Ends Copy Share Image
Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that… — Charles Baxter Angel Copy Share Image
