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Charles Baxter has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not…
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What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.…
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When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in…
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Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently…
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At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for…
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When blame has been assigned, the story is over.
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My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
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Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
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At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.
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Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have…
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There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action…
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When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
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