Latest Charles Baxter Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Character, Choices, Stories

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• I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

  Charles Baxter

  Stories, Produce, Novel

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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

  Home, Writing, Stories

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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 honestly, with sufficient clarity, and detail.

  Charles Baxter

  Long, Feelings, Details

  "Off the Page: Charles Baxter". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 16, 2003.

• It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective.

  Charles Baxter

  Book, Awards, Degrees

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• Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

  Charles Baxter

  Real, Race, Literature

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• The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

  Charles Baxter

  Book, Trying, Firsts

  "Off the Page: Charles Baxter". Interview with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. October 16, 2003.

• 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

  Book, Romantic Love, Love Is

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