Jim Bishop Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

“It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.”

“The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.”

“When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?”

“Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.”