Ken Baumann quotes:

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.