Nicholson Baker

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  • “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

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  • “Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies – and it is free, and it is fast.” -Nicholson Baker

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  • “I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue – a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren’t libelous or otherwise illegal.” -Nicholson Baker

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