The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
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… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
“Why are things beautiful? I don´t know. That´s a good question. Isn´t it pleasing when you ask a question of a person, a teacher,… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
“The neurons that do expire are the ones that made imitation possible. When you are capable of skillful imitation, the sweep of choices before… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
“The fact that we had independently decided to sweep our apartments on that Sunday afternoon after spending the weekend together, I took as a… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share
