Nicholson Baker Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.
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.
I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.
I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple.
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.
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.
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.
The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.
The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.
A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.
What does "poet laureate" mean? Nothing. It means a person with laurel branches twined around his head. Which is not something people do much now.