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Nicholson Baker Quotes

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Nicholson Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 7, 1957

Topics

Poetry Reading Write First Poet

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

Me World Artist Songwriting Two

My parents were part of a crowd that was attached to all the different navies stationed in Malta. When they would have parties in each other's houses, I would get taken along, and that's where I heard all this great music. I didn't distinguish particular styles; it was all music to me.

Music Great Parents Me Different

When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.

Family Money School Support Me Help

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find odd little personal experiences that you hope are universal or think might be universal.

Hope Myself Think Push You Find

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

Perspective Different Would Rather

I just want to win and carrying on winning for Liverpool.

Roberto Firmino

Win Winning Want Just Carrying

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.

Jonny Lee Miller

Good Looking You Mad Go Always

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

Change Writing Night Write Head

Market segmentation s a natural result of the vast differences among people.

People Result Differences Market

I loved these turtles that were somehow mutants and teenagers, and they were ninjas. How cool is that?

Cool Loved Teenagers How Were

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.

Better Year Fairness Security Rule

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

Keith Olbermann

President Dead He Lousy Reagan

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