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I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.
— Charles Baxter
If you're smart, you keep happiness to yourself.
— Charles Baxter
When blame has been assigned, the story is over.
— Charles Baxter
Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.
— Charles Baxter
Hell is the proof of God's failure or refusal to love.
— Charles Baxter
Every day became an epic of endurance.
— Charles Baxter
Making love to him was like going through a car wash, except you came out dirtier and more alive at the other end.
— Charles Baxter
Literature is not an instruction manual.
— Charles Baxter
Creating a scene is thus the staging of a desire.
— Charles Baxter
You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.
— Charles Baxter
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
— Charles Baxter
Once someone has bound your heart, he's the only person who can let it loose again.
— Charles Baxter
There is no weather in malls.
— Charles Baxter
Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.
— Charles Baxter
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.
— Charles Baxter
The crazy ones are mostly crazy because love made them that way.
— Charles Baxter
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.
— Charles Baxter
She has a winning smile. She wins, she always wins.
— Charles Baxter
I am pleased to have an enemy who is not symbolic.
— Charles Baxter
Every day is a new day when filled with dawn feeling, a virgin day, until it gets fucked up by human activity and becomes history.
— Charles Baxter
I am glimmerless.
— Charles Baxter
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. You don't have to move an inch.
— Charles Baxter
We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch.
— Charles Newcomb Baxter
Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.
— Charles Baxter
He gave the impression of being clean and dry as though he had been pressed between two large blotters which had absorbed all his vital juices.
— Charles Baxter
The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.
— Charles Baxter
Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)
— Charles Baxter
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
Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.
— Charles Baxter
Everybody should customize their names.
— Charles Baxter
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.
— Charles Baxter
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
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.
— Charles Baxter
Reading Dostoyevsky is like sitting in the front row of a theater, where the actors' spit lands on your face.
— Charles Baxter
The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation.
— Charles Baxter
Weather is so nineteenth-century in its effects,
— Charles Baxter
After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.
— Charles Baxter
To his great relief she recommended no course of action. She listened. She didn't believe in giving advice, even when asked.
— Charles Baxter
You'll have your heart cut out with a grapefruit knife; love does that. You won't have a chance against me until you're very old, if then.
— Charles Baxter
If God appeared on this earth again, lawyers would sue Him.
— Charles Baxter
Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.
— Charles Baxter
He only loved his love for me
— Charles Baxter
and behind them the quivering mucosity of her tongue.
— Charles Baxter
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 I have.
— Charles Baxter
I have to let her remain here if she wants to. She's wreckage. It's as simple as that. We have these obligations to our human ruins.
— Charles Baxter
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.
— Charles Baxter
Art is not a sack race.
— Charles Baxter
Their souls are usually heavy and managerial.
— Charles Baxter
Ethics is a dream.
— Charles Baxter
Against the odds, they refuse to succeed.
— Charles Baxter
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