Nicholson Baker Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

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

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

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

“I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.”

“I've always thought of myself as shy.”

“Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”