Nicholson Baker Quotes

"Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master."
- Nicholson Baker
(Related: First, Machines)

"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
(Related: Day, Reading)

"Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for."
- Nicholson Baker
(Related: Will)

"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."
- Nicholson Baker
(Related: Control, Beginning, Living, World, Writers)

"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
- Nicholson Baker
(Related: Living, Worry)

"I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes."
- Nicholson Baker
(Related: Want)

"Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants."
- Nicholson Baker
(Related: Restaurants)