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Nicholson Baker

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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.


— Nicholson Baker


#inventions #beauty

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.


— Nicholson Baker


#life #death

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


#apply #friend #him #his #life

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


— Nicholson Baker


#control #form #group #living #me

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.


— Nicholson Baker


#furnished #i #live #longer #want

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


— Nicholson Baker


#cream #harden #ice #ice cream #over

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.


— Nicholson Baker


#first #given #machines #master #shoes

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


#always #before #day #had #made

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.


— Nicholson Baker


#go #pens #rarely #restaurants

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


— Nicholson Baker


#chair #felt #haven #living #living room






About Nicholson Baker






Did you know about Nicholson Baker?

He is hard at work on his autobiography 'The Fermata. All of the Updike quotations used are presented as coming from memory alone and many are inaccurate with correct versions and Baker's (later) commentary on the inaccuracy given in brackets. ' It proves in the telling to be a very provocative funny and altogether morally confused piece of work.

Nicholson Baker (born January 7 1957) is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization.

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