Bill Bryson Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Mean, Appreciate

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.573, Random House

• For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude sometimes proves easier to urge than to achieve. Among the errors cited in this book are a number committed by some of the leading authorities of this century. If men such as Fowler and Bernstein and Quirk and Howard cannot always get their English right, is it reasonable to expect the rest of us to?

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Writing, Men

• On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?

  Bill Bryson

  Moving, Book, Long

• I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, Country, Book

• Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

  Bill Bryson

  Real, Book, Writing

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

• The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Successful, Firsts

• I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

  Bill Bryson

  Witty, Disappointment, Party

• Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated as if you are much more important than you are, you can eat steak three times a day at someone else's expense, and you get to talk endlessly about yourself for weeks at a stretch.

  Bill Bryson

  Fun, Nice, Book

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Big Country: Journey Into the American Dream”, p.262, Random House

• To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Home, Fire

• America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Disappointment, Book, Shopping

• Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Pride, Use

  "Lead the way" by Simon Mills, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2007.

• I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Writing, Library

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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