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 keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

Nicholson Baker

There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

Nicholson Baker

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

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

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

Nicholson Baker

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

Nicholson Baker

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

Nicholson Baker

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

Nicholson Baker

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

Nicholson Baker

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

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