Short Quotes - Author Nicholson Baker Showing 1 - 8 of 8 Add Quote I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. Nicholson Baker Want Upvote0 Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants. Nicholson Baker Restaurants Upvote0 For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. Nicholson Baker Control Upvote0 Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? Nicholson Baker Living Upvote0 Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. Nicholson Baker Will Upvote0 Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. Nicholson Baker First Upvote0 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 Day Upvote0 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 Power Upvote0