Charles Baxter Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

  Charles Baxter

  Mistake, Character, Sound

  Charles Baxter (1997). “Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction”

• Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.

  Charles Baxter

  Character, Interesting, Trying

• 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

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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