Quotes by : Charles Baxter

You know, very few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim they do, but they....

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring....

Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down....

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

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the....

The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us....

At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to....

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.