Latest Bill Bryson Quotes from Interviews

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• Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

  Bill Bryson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Balance

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

• It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.

  Bill Bryson

  Jobs, Animal, Thinking

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

• 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.

• 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.

• If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.

  Bill Bryson

  Believe, Thinking, Years

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

• You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.

  Bill Bryson

  Believe, Hands, Two

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