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Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

- Nicholson Baker

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I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

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.

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

I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

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.

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Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.