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Prose Quotes by Nicholson Baker
- When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
- Poetry is prose in slow motion.
- So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading…
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