"Needing something is not the same thing as……" — Charles Baxter

"Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself."

— Charles Baxter

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38 Quotes by Charles Baxter

Charles Baxter has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of…
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is…
When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay…
Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine,…
At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a…
When blame has been assigned, the story is over.
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.
Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I…
There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive…
When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in…

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