Nicholson Baker Quotes

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

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• I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Why
  • Happy

• I always separated sports and my personal life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Always
  • Sports

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Limits

• In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Think
  • Habit

• I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Important
  • Women

• The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Best
  • Waiting

• The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Real
  • Unexpected

• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Commitment

• Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hand

• To the jury foreman in the second trial: 'Mr. Rodriguez? Can I ask you a question? What do you think a grown man up in his 40s is doing sleeping with one little boy after the next, all by himself, locked up in his bedroom, every night? That doesn't bother you? It bothers me.'

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Up
  • Night
  • Question

• The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• I like the word fuck. Fucking deal with it and move on to the first fucking question you have.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Question

• Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Business

• In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The French use gardens to show grandeur and the English to show how things have endured for hundreds of years, but for me, they're all about fantasy.

  

  Peter Marino
  • English

• I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be president, anyway. ... I think it is maybe time - what do you think - for maybe a businessman. How about that? A stellar businessman.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • Time
  • Good

• It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Future

• I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

  

  David Rees
  • Writing
  • Really
  • Intimidated

• The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Life
  • Question
  • Novel