Nicholson Baker

I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog…

— Nicholson Baker

Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes…

— Nicholson Baker

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly…

— Nicholson Baker

“The damage that you have inflicted heals over, and the scarred places left behind have unusual surface areas, roughnesses enough to become…

— Nicholson Baker

I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue…

— Nicholson Baker

“And I'll flip through the newest issue, walking back from my blue mailbox, hunting for the poem he chose over mine, and…

— Nicholson Baker

A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in…

— Nicholson Baker

Churchill was a brilliant and inspiring rhetorician, but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation…

— Nicholson Baker

There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy…

— Nicholson Baker

“So the first thing about the history of rhyme . . . is that it’s all happened before. It’s all part of…

— Nicholson Baker

I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before…

— Nicholson Baker