Top 39 Quotes by Nicholson Baker

About Nicholson Baker

These are some quotes by American author Nicholson Baker Novelist, who was born on January 7, 1957.

I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.

I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.

Nicholson Baker

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Nicholson Baker

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

Nicholson Baker

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

Nicholson Baker

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Nicholson Baker

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

Nicholson Baker

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Nicholson Baker

I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.

Nicholson Baker

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

Nicholson Baker

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

Nicholson Baker

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