The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living? — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“The thing about life is that life is an infinite subject matter. At any one moment you can say only what' before… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college,… — 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
