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Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the s...

Charles Baxter

Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the s...

Tags: books, ignorance, life, meaning, reading, the wisdom of false shamans

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

Charles Baxter

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

Tags: pain, purity, sensation

About Author
Charles Baxter may refer to:

Charles Baxter (actor) (died 1998), American actor in Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
Charles Baxter (author) (born 1947), American author
Charles Baxter (painter) (1809–1879), English painter
Charles Baxter (politician) (1874–1950), Australian politician
Charles Baxter (rugby union) (born 1981), New Zealand rugby union player
Charles H. Baxter (1841–1923), American politician
Charles R. Baxter (1929–2005), American physician
Charles S. Baxter (1866–1927), mayor of Medford, Massachusetts

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 air, using your own imaginative instability.

Charles Baxter

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 air, using your own imaginative instability.

Tags: craft, writing

What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pesterin...

Charles Baxter

What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pesterin...

Tags: relationships, settling, solitude

IN THE SMALL Ohio town where I grew up, many homes had parlors that contained pianos, sideboards, and sofas, heavy objects signifying gentility. These pianos were rarely tuned. They went flat in summe...

Charles Baxter

IN THE SMALL Ohio town where I grew up, many homes had parlors that contained pianos, sideboards, and sofas, heavy objects signifying gentility. These pianos were rarely tuned. They went flat in summe...

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

Charles Baxter

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

Tags: discovery, fiction, mystery, overdetermination, perfection, plot, writing

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

Charles Baxter

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

Tags: writing