Nicholson Baker

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#inventions #beauty

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#life #death

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

#apply #friend #him #his #life

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

— Nicholson Baker

#control #form #group #living #me

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

— Nicholson Baker

#furnished #i #live #longer #want

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#cream #harden #ice #ice cream #over

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#first #given #machines #master #shoes

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

#always #before #day #had #made

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#go #pens #rarely #restaurants

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#chair #felt #haven #living #living room