The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.
Nicholson BakerIt'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 BakerA bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.
Nicholson BakerI certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was this insane aggressor, and there was really only one way to proceed in resisting him. What I didn't realize is that there were many voices belonging to reasonable, interesting, complicated people who had a different way of interpreting the possible responses to the Hitlerian menace.
Nicholson Baker