Nicholson Baker

“The way to get a project done is to just do it.”

“I think that we have a desperate need for a deeper appreciation of the sky.”

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader furnishes it.”

“Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened.”

“Books are not for ever. We are their caretakers.”

“Human beings are not built for reading content on screen.”

“History is a vast early warning system.”

“Life is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

“The present is the only thing that has no end.”

“It is a beautiful thing, to be in touch with what you want.”

“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”

“Every moment is a new and shocking transfiguration of the past.”

“We are all, in a sense, tourists of our own lives.”

“A great library is a place of refreshment, a place of solace, a place of inspiration.”

“You are not the same person you were a minute ago.”

“We want to be masters of our own biographies.”

“I'm interested in the way that the language of thought is so much richer than the language of speech.”

“What a luxury it is to expose yourself to things you are not involved in.”

“It’s not that I’m a Luddite, but I am suspicious of the digital.”