I've always thought of myself as shy.Nicholson BakerTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I've always thought of myself as shy.
“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 BakerPoetry
“That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.”Nicholson Baker
“Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.”Dionne BromfieldShy
“I didn't do particularly well with girls at school. I was very shy. I'm not saying that was the only reason I didn't do well with them, but I just didn't.”Jamie DornanShy
“I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.”
“One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.”Nicholson BakerEventually
“It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.”Nicholson BakerCredits
“I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.”Nicholson BakerAwkward