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Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker
American Novelist
Born: Jan 7, 1957
About First Music Think Time You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
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
Persistence Demanding Sit Nothing Books Bookstores Out Brought Outlive Brute Qualities Printed Around Decades Them Who Nicest Publishers
Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. Nicholson Baker
Wikipedia Partly Because Altruism
Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. Nicholson Baker
You Will Over Spoon Been Ice Ice Cream Cream Working Harden Sauce
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? Nicholson Baker
You Living Worry About No-One Sort Felt Room Your Chair Living Room Peculiar
I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. Nicholson Baker
Live Furnished Longer Want Apartment
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
Day You Problem Made Reading Before Had Pick Always Up Very Stop The Problem With Again Thing
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
Life You Power Own Relative Particular Until Him Proverb His Friend Sway Your Watched Applied Apply
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. Nicholson Baker
Me World Beginning Control Group Living Other Writers Form Placebo Novelist Whom
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. Nicholson Baker
First Master Shoes Machines Given Adult
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
Natural Say Musician Some Overcame Practiced Limitations Got Really Certain Certain Level Hard Dedicated Hard-Working Technical Proficiency Level
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
Music Way Had Know Read Around Very Any Going Happen Little Century Realized
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing. Nicholson Baker
Life Too Somewhat Studied Exciting New Very New Thing Dorm Hard Whole Thing Awkward Shy
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. Nicholson Baker
People Poetry Bother Reminded Read Often Want Fiddle Sentences Really Why
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. Nicholson Baker
Good Poets Write Very Essays Short Really Who Many
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop. Nicholson Baker
Best White Out About More He Maine Read Sure Sailing Go His Essays Any Which Things
I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one. Nicholson Baker
Buy Kindle Web Web Site Could Ads Over How Were Amazon Site Whenever Ordered Banner Urged
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
Book Fickle Books Ten Finish Ten Years Take Never Put Reader Been Years Up Five Again Aside Then Fast Start
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
Time Great Cute Worse Bad Kindle Fond Delightful True Name Sinister Itself Than Same Microsoft Forgives Probe Same Time Bob Product Even
Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of. Nicholson Baker
You Whatever Think Kindle Something More Forces Doing Commit Maybe Expensive Should
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
Me Writing Assumed Liberated Would Would-Be Exactly Exactly What Wrote Read Pseudonym Wanted While Published
First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read. Nicholson Baker
Love You First Way Criticisms Kindle Read Problematic Want Should Ignore Works
I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared. Nicholson Baker
Library Big Become Research Books Libraries Remains Like Shelves Task Same Form Which Full Electronic Appeared Keep Published
I've always thought of myself as shy. Nicholson Baker
Myself Thought Always Shy
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people. Nicholson Baker
Great You People About Great Thing Talk Polite Very Person Want Upsetting Novels Thing Things Startling
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast. Nicholson Baker
Funny Free Wikipedia Incredible Messy Huge Shocking Controversies Just Full Fast Thing Careful
I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal. Nicholson Baker
Hope Dreams Time Broken Long Think Wikipedia Otherwise Secret Someone Could Proposed Read Am Still Were Done Being Where Illegal Bin Rejects Recently

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