Books Quote by Nicholson Baker

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

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

I’ve always thought of myself as shy,

— Nicholson Baker

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

— Nicholson Baker

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

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

— Nicholson Baker