"The question any novel is really trying to……" — Nicholson Baker

"The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?"

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59 Quotes by Nicholson Baker

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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend…
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
I’ve always thought of myself as shy,
You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do,…
If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going…
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply…

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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. — Ruth Benedict
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