Quotes About Nicholson Baker

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.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

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.

It's hard to explain why I was so nervous: it was partly that little children are mysterious beings, and partly because I genuinely believed in first grade.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.