Destiny Quote by Charles Baxter Download Open image “When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.” — Charles Baxter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destiny Details Discovery Fiction Fit Mystery Stories Writing
There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong? — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work. — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
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It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with… — Charles Baxter 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 being loved,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Gurov, discovers that the most important features of life that you want to talk about cannot be spoken of in polite society.” — Charles Baxter 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 not fall… — Charles Baxter 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 her. — Charles Baxter 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 me.” — Charles Baxter 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 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 the world.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
... War on the destiny of man! Doom on the sun! Before death takes you, O take back this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?” — Pat Shand Copy Share Image
“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Destiny is the ordained intention God has sacredly prepared with your name on it.” — John S. Lynch Copy Share Image
