In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.
Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters cam… - Nicholson Baker
Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters cam…
- Nicholson Baker
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. - Nicholson Baker
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of thei… - 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 thei…
The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off. - Nicholson Baker
The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.
I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read. - Nicholson Baker
I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. - Nicholson Baker
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. - Nicholson Baker
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? - Nicholson Baker
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or mayb… - Nicholson Baker
Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or mayb…
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