Book Quote by Nicholson Baker

Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on…

— Kevin Young

Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book,…

— Mary Pilon

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes…

— Barry Diller

“Behind every text footnote is a file folder with all the hardcopy documentation needed to document every sentence in this book at a moment’s…

— Edwin Black

“footnotes are peculiar things, you know—like footpaths twisting through a wild and anarchic country. They split, then they split again; at any point you…

— Stephen King

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat…

— Ted Nelson

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

— William James

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“We had to keep explaining things, backtracking and filling gaps. We realised our own conversations had evolved into a kind of shorthand, a tidy,…

— Steven Hall

A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness

— John Andrew Holmes

“When I am a writer, I shall do parenthetical asides. And footnotes. There will be footnotes. I wonder how you do them? And italics.…

— Neil Gaiman

“Maybe they were nothing more than a footnote.”

— Jennifer E. Smith