A Quote by Charles Baxter

Literature is not an instruction manual.

Charles Baxter

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Charles Baxter
American - Novelist
Born: May 13, 1947

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.

Donald A. Norman

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Scott Westerfeld

The human brain doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Bill Engvall

Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?

Lisa Kleypas

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.

Lawrence Kutner

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Bryan Adams

In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.

Paul Horgan

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.

Nicholas Jarecki

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

Alton Brown

The instruction manual for my Motorola phone is bigger and heavier than the phone.

Martin Cooper

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

Steve Schirripa

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Ingrid Betancourt

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

Hugh Laurie

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Marguerite Duras

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life.

Harvey Mackay

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Pico Iyer

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