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Nicholson Baker Quotes

There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover, and as abdomen is to consort, and as middle is to petite amie Picture Quote #1

Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? Picture Quote #1

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain Picture Quote #1

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true Picture Quote #1

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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens Picture Quote #1

You can tell it’s a poem because it’s swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it’s a poem Picture Quote #1

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read Picture Quote #1

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief Picture Quote #1

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If you write every day, you’re going to write a lot of things that aren’t terribly good, but you’re going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I’d be turned into a mist and I would rematerialize in the room of the person I’m talking to. Is that too odd for you? Picture Quote #1

I don’t do all that well in the writerly world. I’m happier being outside the flow Picture Quote #1

I’m often called obsessive, but I don’t think I am any more than anyone else Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people’s eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree Picture Quote #1

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There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover, and as abdomen is to consort, and as middle is to petite amie (Nicholson Baker Quotes) Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? (Nicholson Baker Quotes) Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for (Nicholson Baker Quotes) 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 Quotes) Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain (Nicholson Baker Quotes) The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true (Nicholson Baker Quotes) Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens (Nicholson Baker Quotes) You can tell it’s a poem because it’s swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it’s a poem (Nicholson Baker Quotes) I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read (Nicholson Baker Quotes) When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry (Nicholson Baker Quotes) 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 Quotes) You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief (Nicholson Baker Quotes) If you write every day, you’re going to write a lot of things that aren’t terribly good, but you’re going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting (Nicholson Baker Quotes) Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I’d be turned into a mist and I would rematerialize in the room of the person I’m talking to. Is that too odd for you? (Nicholson Baker Quotes) I don’t do all that well in the writerly world. I’m happier being outside the flow (Nicholson Baker Quotes) I’m often called obsessive, but I don’t think I am any more than anyone else (Nicholson Baker Quotes) 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 Quotes) For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo (Nicholson Baker Quotes) 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 Quotes) I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people’s eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree (Nicholson Baker Quotes)

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