Charles Baxter Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.

  Charles Baxter

  Writing, Friendly, Want

• 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

  Writing, Ideas, Acting

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

  Charles Baxter

  Writing, Destiny, Details

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

• 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

  Writing, Air, Waiting

• A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

  Charles Baxter

  Writing, Unseen, Details

  Charles Baxter (2007). “The art of subtext: beyond plot”, Graywolf Pr

• 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

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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