Nicholson Baker Quote
Subject of Thought Number of Times Thought Occurred per Year (in descending order)L. 580.0Family 400.0Brushing tongue 150.0Earplugs 100.0Bill-paying 52.0Panasonic three-wheeled vacuum cleaner, greatness of 45.0Sunlight makes you cheerful 40.0Traffic frustration 38.0Penguin books, all 35.0Job, should I quit? 34.0Friends, don't have any 33.0Marriage, a possibility? 32.0Vending machines 31.0Straws don't unsheath well 28.0Shine on moving objects 25.0McCartney more talented than Lennon? 23.0Friends smarter, more capable than I am 19.0Paper-towel dispensers 19.0What oft was thought, but ne'er etc. 18.0People are very dissimilar 16.0Trees, beauty of 15.0Sidewalks 15.0Friends are unworthy of me 15.0Indentical twins separated at birth, studies of traits 14.0Intelligence, going fast 14.0Wheelchair ramps, their insane danger 14.0Urge to kill 13.0Escalator invention 12.0People are very similar 12.0Not in my backyard 11.0Straws float now 10.0DJ, would I be happy as one? 9.0If you can't get out of it, get into it 9.0Pen, felt-tip 9.0Gasoline, nice smell of 8.0Pen, ballpoint 8.0Stereo systems 8.0Fear of getting mugged again 7.0Staplers 7.0Roaches check in, but they don't check out 6.0Dinner roll, image of 6.0Shoes 6.0Bags 5.0Butz, Earl 4.0Sweeping, brooms 4.0Whistling, yodel trick 4.0You can taste it with your eyes 4.0Dry-cleaning fluid, smell of 3.0Zip-lock tops 2.0Popcorn 1.0Birds regurgitate food and feed young with it 0.5Kant, Immanuel 0.5
Subject of Thought Number of Times Thought Occurred per Year (in descending order)L. 580.0Family 400.0Brushing tongue 150.0Earplugs 100.0Bill-paying 52.0Panasonic three-wheeled vacuum cleaner, greatness of 45.0Sunlight makes you cheerful 40.0Traffic frustration 38.0Penguin books, all 35.0Job, should I quit? 34.0Friends, don't have any 33.0Marriage, a possibility? 32.0Vending machines 31.0Straws don't unsheath well 28.0Shine on moving objects 25.0McCartney more talented than Lennon? 23.0Friends smarter, more capable than I am 19.0Paper-towel dispensers 19.0What oft was thought, but ne'er etc. 18.0People are very dissimilar 16.0Trees, beauty of 15.0Sidewalks 15.0Friends are unworthy of me 15.0Indentical twins separated at birth, studies of traits 14.0Intelligence, going fast 14.0Wheelchair ramps, their insane danger 14.0Urge to kill 13.0Escalator invention 12.0People are very similar 12.0Not in my backyard 11.0Straws float now 10.0DJ, would I be happy as one? 9.0If you can't get out of it, get into it 9.0Pen, felt-tip 9.0Gasoline, nice smell of 8.0Pen, ballpoint 8.0Stereo systems 8.0Fear of getting mugged again 7.0Staplers 7.0Roaches check in, but they don't check out 6.0Dinner roll, image of 6.0Shoes 6.0Bags 5.0Butz, Earl 4.0Sweeping, brooms 4.0Whistling, yodel trick 4.0You can taste it with your eyes 4.0Dry-cleaning fluid, smell of 3.0Zip-lock tops 2.0Popcorn 1.0Birds regurgitate food and feed young with it 0.5Kant, Immanuel 0.5
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About Nicholson Baker
Baker also writes non-fiction books. U and I: A True Story, about his relationship with John Updike, was published in 1991. He then wrote about the American library system in his 2001 book Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, for which he received a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Calw Hermann Hesse Prize for the German translation. A pacifist, he wrote Human Smoke (2008) about the buildup to World War II.
Baker has published articles in Harper's Magazine, the London Review of Books and The New Yorker, among other periodicals.
Baker created the American Newspaper Repository in 1999. He has also written about and edited Wikipedia.