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

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

- 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…

- Nicholson Baker

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

- Nicholson Baker

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

- 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…

- Nicholson Baker

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

- Nicholson Baker

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

- Nicholson Baker