Nicholson Baker Want Quotations

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.

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

Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity.

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

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.