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Nicholson Baker
American
Novelist
About the author
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,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Power
#Friend
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
Nicholson Baker,
American
Novelist
#First
#Machines
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,
American
Novelist
#Day
#Reading
Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
Nicholson Baker,
American
Novelist
#Will
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
Nicholson Baker,
American
Novelist
#World
#Writers
#Living
#Control
#Beginning
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
Nicholson Baker,
American
Novelist
#Living
#Worry
I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.
Nicholson Baker,
American
Novelist
#Want
Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.
Nicholson Baker,
American
Novelist
#Restaurants