Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? Nicholson Baker Read Quote
I don’t do all that well in the writerly world. I’m happier being outside the flow. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
True, the name of the product wasn’t so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time – worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft’s Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
I’ve never been a fast reader. I’m fickle; I don’t finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
I hadn’t played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I’m writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about – dancing and trancing and love and love’s setbacks. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
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 qualities – their brute persistence. Nicholson Baker Read Quote
