Bill Bryson Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“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.”

“The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.”

“For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.”

“America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.”

“Cheapness is a great virtue.”

“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.”

“I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.”

“I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.”

“I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.”

“I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.”