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Nicholson Baker is an American writer known for his profound insights into everyday life and his unique perspective on historical events. His works, which span across novels, non-fiction, and poetry, often depict characters' psychological states and social backgrounds with a delicate touch.

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“Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.”

Firsts Sex Wings Prose Metaphorical

Book:U and I: A True Story

Source: U and I: A True Story

“I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.”

Knows World Firsts Kind War News England Planning France War Of The Worlds Chemicals Warfare Potatoes Dropping Crops Colorado First World War Beetles Chemical Warfare

Author:Nicholson Baker

“Churchill was a brilliant and inspiring rhetorician, but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation was to put German Jews in jail. Tens of thousands of Jews - who had just been fortunate enough to get out from under Hitler only a few years before - spent the entire war in jail.”

Years Firsts War Enough Nations Jew British Brilliant Fortunate Jail

Author:Nicholson Baker

“I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.”

Way Feels Firsts Wanted Novel Mass Tricks Narrative Passages Blank Blowing It

Book:U and I: A True Story

Source: U and I: A True Story

“So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a tiny kid, using that detachable front phoneme.”

Source: The Anthologist: A Novel

“When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.”

Writing Firsts Wanted Reading Prose Reading Poetry

Author:Nicholson Baker

“Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”

Firsts Given Masters Adults Machines Shoes

Book:Mezzanine

Source: Mezzanine

“First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.”

Ifs Way Want Should Firsts Criticism Kindles

Author:Nicholson Baker

About the Author

Born: January 7, 1957
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 105

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