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.

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

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

Nicholson Baker

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

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

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

The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

Nicholson Baker

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

Nicholson Baker

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

Nicholson Baker

I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.

I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.

Nicholson Baker

True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.

Nicholson Baker

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