Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured. Bill Bryson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don’t seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing. Bill Bryson Read Quote
I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I’ve done it so many times. Bill Bryson Read Quote
Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don’t think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good. Bill Bryson Read Quote
The world is very lucky to have America. It’s got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet that a country has been the dominant force in the world and it has actually been a force for good… America really deserves more credit. Bill Bryson Read Quote
I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed. Bill Bryson Read Quote
