“The Pop-Tarts page is often aflutter. Pop-Tarts, it says as of today (February 8, 2008), were discontinued in Australia in 2005. Maybe… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment -- I need to see how they dance.' 'Okay.' She… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“I made an egg salad sandwich and took a bite of it over the open silverware drawer. A piece of egg salad… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
