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Nicholson Baker Quote: “Most writers are secretly worried that they’re not really writers. That it’s all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won’t coalesce ever again.”

51. “Most writers are secretly worried that they’re not really writers. That it’s all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won’t coalesce ever again.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker 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.”

52. “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

Nicholson Baker 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.”

53. “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

Nicholson Baker Quote: “I’m suspicious of full-replacement programs – that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.”

54. “I’m suspicious of full-replacement programs – that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “And now I’m back outside again sitting in the white plastic chair looking at the dew on the gas cap of my car. A fly wants to bit me on the ankle. The mosquitoes are all asleep. They’re just not out at this hour. Only one biting fly. And a mourning dove, who blows through his thumbs to make that sound.”

55. “And now I’m back outside again sitting in the white plastic chair looking at the dew on the gas cap of my car. A fly wants to bit me on the ankle. The mosquitoes are all asleep. They’re just not out at this hour. Only one biting fly. And a mourning dove, who blows through his thumbs to make that sound.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “All my tips and tricks and woes and worries are gong to come tumbling out before you. I’m going to divulge them. What a juicy work that is, ‘divulge.’ Truth opening its petals. Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.”

56. “All my tips and tricks and woes and worries are gong to come tumbling out before you. I’m going to divulge them. What a juicy work that is, ‘divulge.’ Truth opening its petals. Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “The feeling that you are stupider than you were is what finally interests you in the really complex subjects of life: in change, in experience, in the ways other people have adjusted to disappointment and narrowed ability. You realize that you are no prodigy, your shoulders relax, and you begin to look around you, seeing local color unrivaled by blue glows of algebra and abstraction.”

57. “The feeling that you are stupider than you were is what finally interests you in the really complex subjects of life: in change, in experience, in the ways other people have adjusted to disappointment and narrowed ability. You realize that you are no prodigy, your shoulders relax, and you begin to look around you, seeing local color unrivaled by blue glows of algebra and abstraction.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.”

58. “In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker 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.”

59. “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

Nicholson Baker Quote: “Sometimes, despite the fact that you’re reading through masses of material, you just can’t not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.”

60. “Sometimes, despite the fact that you’re reading through masses of material, you just can’t not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.”

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

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I’m trying to get at more efficiently.”

62. “In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I’m trying to get at more efficiently.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “I’m often called obsessive, but I don’t think I am any more than anyone else.”

63. “I’m often called obsessive, but I don’t think I am any more than anyone else.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.”

64. “Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “Notes of joy have a special STP solvent in them that dissolves all the gluey engine deposits of heartache. War and woe don’t have anything like the range and reach that notes of joy do.”

65. “Notes of joy have a special STP solvent in them that dissolves all the gluey engine deposits of heartache. War and woe don’t have anything like the range and reach that notes of joy do.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “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.”

66. “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

Nicholson Baker Quote: “Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these two groups, who have cooperated more closely in this domain than in any other.”

67. “Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these two groups, who have cooperated more closely in this domain than in any other.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker 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.”

68. “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

Nicholson Baker Quote: “I don’t do all that well in the writerly world. I’m happier being outside the flow.”

69. “I don’t do all that well in the writerly world. I’m happier being outside the flow.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.”

70. “When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.”

71. “When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions – the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.”

72. “Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions – the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “You can register a political objection in a number of ways.”

73. “You can register a political objection in a number of ways.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “The nice thing about putting on your glasses in the dark is that you know you could see better if it were light, but since it is dark the glasses make no difference at all.”

74. “The nice thing about putting on your glasses in the dark is that you know you could see better if it were light, but since it is dark the glasses make no difference at all.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.”

75. “Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “During a 10-year period the locomotives of Egypt made us of no other fuel than that furnished by the well-wrapped, compact mummies.”

76. “During a 10-year period the locomotives of Egypt made us of no other fuel than that furnished by the well-wrapped, compact mummies.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “I was a man, but I was not nearly the magnitude of a man I had hoped I might be.”

77. “I was a man, but I was not nearly the magnitude of a man I had hoped I might be.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “Also, mugs, like car bumpers and T-shirts, have become places for people to proclaim allegiances, names, hobbies, heroes, graphic tastes.”

78. “Also, mugs, like car bumpers and T-shirts, have become places for people to proclaim allegiances, names, hobbies, heroes, graphic tastes.”

— Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker Quote: “With fewer total cells, but more connections between each cell, the quality of your knowledge undergoes a transformation: you begin to have a feel for situations, people fall into types, your past memories link together, and your life begins to seem, as it hadn’t when you were younger, an inevitable thing composed of a million small failures and successes dependently intergrown, as opposed to a bright beadlike row of unaffiliated moments.”

79. “With fewer total cells, but more connections between each cell, the quality of your knowledge undergoes a transformation: you begin to have a feel for situations, people fall into types, your past memories link together, and your life begins to seem, as it hadn’t when you were younger, an inevitable thing composed of a million small failures and successes dependently intergrown, as opposed to a bright beadlike row of unaffiliated moments.”

— Nicholson Baker

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