Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour…

Quote by Nicholson Baker

Topics: Friendship Quotes, Love Quotes

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for...

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for...

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or...

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or...

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room...

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room...

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the...

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the...

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

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

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

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

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have...

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have...