I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American. Bill Bryson Read Quote
The basic challenge of any book is you know you’re going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged. Bill Bryson Read Quote
I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did – all of these peoples’ lives went on. Bill Bryson Read Quote
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. Bill Bryson Read Quote
I always tell people there’s only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn’t have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it. Bill Bryson Read Quote
I’m not funny in person. I mean I’m really not. I’m one of those people who always screw up anecdotes. 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. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time. Bill Bryson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Bill Bryson Read Quote
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost. Bill Bryson Read Quote
