First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and… — 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… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically… — 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
The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way… — 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
