The music wasn’t going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn’t know my way around any century. I was very under read. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I’m not a natural musician. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you’ve watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
One’s head is finite. You pour more and more things into it – surnames, chronologies, affiliations – and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. Nicholson Baker Read Quote