--- title: "22 Kind Quotes By Bill Bryson" description: "22 Kind quotes by Bill Bryson. Plus more from Bill Bryson and more Kind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/288/bill-bryson-340_book_the-first-book-i-did-the-first-successfu_1514706.png" --- > [The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/the-first-book-i-did-the-first-successful-book-was-a-kind-of-a-travel/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/288/bill-bryson-340_book_the-first-book-i-did-the-first-successfu_1514706.png) > [Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/physics-is-really-nothing-more-than-a-search-for-ultimate-simplicity/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/303/bill-bryson-340_kind_physics-is-really-nothing-more-than-a-se_2512354.png) > [Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/not-writing-the-same-kind-of-book-over-and-over-again-is-to-me-the/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/bill-bryson-340_book_not-writing-the-same-kind-of-book-over-a_2430700.png) > [As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/as-the-saying-goes-it-takes-all-kinds-to-make-the-world-go-around/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/bill-bryson-340_all-kinds_as-the-saying-goes-it-takes-all-kinds-to_406246.png) > [I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-still-enjoy-traveling-a-lot-i-mean-it-amazes-me-that-i-still-get/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cb/bill-bryson-340_enjoy_i-still-enjoy-traveling-a-lot-i-mean-it_586444.png) > [The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/the-real-problem-you-get-with-humour-is-that-you-only-have-so-many/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f57/bill-bryson-340_comedy_the-real-problem-you-get-with-humour-is_3014324.png) > [A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/a-significant-fraction-of-thru-hikers-reach-katahdin-then-turn-around/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/339/bill-bryson-340_fractions_a-significant-fraction-of-thru-hikers-re_3217339.png) > [I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-just-use-my-life-story-as-a-kind-of-device-on-which-to-hang-comic/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d32/bill-bryson-340_comic_i-just-use-my-life-story-as-a-kind-of-de_1041728.png) > [I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-turned-to-my-own-bunk-and-examined-it-with-a-kind-of-appalled/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf8/bill-bryson-340_bunk_i-turned-to-my-own-bunk-and-examined-it_604630.png) > [After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/after-years-of-patient-study-and-with-cricket-there-can-be-no-other/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/bill-bryson-340_carts_after-years-of-patient-study-and-with-cr_2684861.png) > [An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/an-awful-lot-of-england-is-slowly-eroding-in-ways-that-i-find-really/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e1/bill-bryson-340_awful_an-awful-lot-of-england-is-slowly-erodin_3153120.png) > [Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/book-tours-are-really-kind-of-fun-you-get-to-stay-in-nice-hotels-you/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47a/bill-bryson-340_about-yourself_book-tours-are-really-kind-of-fun-you-ge_675221.png) > [Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/most-of-the-time-i-am-sunk-in-thought-but-at-some-point-on-each-walk/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4fc/bill-bryson-340_astonishment_most-of-the-time-i-am-sunk-in-thought-bu_1947460.jpg) > [I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-could-give-you-a-long-list-of-things-i-like-about-britain-but/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/bill-bryson-340_about_i-could-give-you-a-long-list-of-things-i_2965314.png) > [Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/clearly-some-time-ago-makers-and-consumers-of-american-junk-food/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5b/bill-bryson-340_barriers_clearly-some-time-ago-makers-and-consume_2611626.png) > [I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-ve-been-writing-all-these-books-that-have-been-largely/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abc/bill-bryson-340_about_i-ve-been-writing-all-these-books-that-h_2977977.png) > [If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-this-book-has-a-lesson-it-is-that-we-are-awfully-lucky-to-be-here/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65f/bill-bryson-340_ability_if-this-book-has-a-lesson-it-is-that-we_66450.png) > [This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/this-was-1990-the-year-that-communism-died-in-europe-and-it-seemed/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50e/bill-bryson-340_capitalism_this-was-1990-the-year-that-communism-di_1277039.png) > [It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/it-was-the-kind-of-pure-undiffused-light-that-can-only-come-from-a/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ac/bill-bryson-340_australia_it-was-the-kind-of-pure-undiffused-light_2414438.png) > [When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/when-you-tell-an-iowan-a-joke-you-can-see-a-kind-of-race-going-on/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/bill-bryson-340_brain_when-you-tell-an-iowan-a-joke-you-can-se_526842.png) > [Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/very-little-of-what-america-does-is-actually-bad-and-i-don-t-think-it/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/378/bill-bryson-340_america_very-little-of-what-america-does-is-actu_234799.png) > [It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/it-s-hard-not-to-be-kind-of-pessimistic-about-human-beings-generally/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/513/bill-bryson-340_animal_it-s-hard-not-to-be-kind-of-pessimistic_1410362.png) ## Other authors on Kind ## More by Bill Bryson > [Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/most-big-companies-don-t-like-you-very-much-except-hotels-airlines/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/but-welsh-spellings-are-as-nothing-compared-with-irish-gaelic-a/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/pantaloons-were-often-worn-tight-as-paint-and-were-not-a-great-deal/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-you-go-out-on-the-appalachian-trail-you-have-to-bring-so-much-more/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/the-dining-table-was-a-plain-board-called-by-that-name-it-was-hung-on/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/from-almost-nothing-france-in-four-years-built-up-an-aircraft/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/every-twenty-minutes-on-the-appalachian-trail-katz-and-i-walked/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/a-diarist-named-george-templeton-strong-recorded-in-the-winter-of/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/tune-your-television-to-any-channel-it-doesn-t-receive-and-about-1/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/as-a-rule-of-thumb-i-would-submit-that-if-you-need-to-call-your-floss/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/nobody-gets-excited-about-the-future-at-all-ever-the-future-is/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/what-made-this-particularly-interesting-is-that-john-howard-is-by-far/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-would-make-a-genuinely-terrible-guide-i-can-t-remember-things-i/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/in-the-mystifying-world-that-was-victorian-parenthood-obedience-took/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-this-book-has-a-lesson-it-is-that-we-are-awfully-lucky-to-be-here/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind/bill-bryson/#itemlist", "name": "22 Kind Quotes By Bill Bryson", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Bryson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/the-first-book-i-did-the-first-successful-book-was-a-kind-of-a-travel/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/288/bill-bryson-340_book_the-first-book-i-did-the-first-successfu_1514706.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/288/bill-bryson-340_book_the-first-book-i-did-the-first-successfu_1514706.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/288/bill-bryson-340_book_the-first-book-i-did-the-first-successfu_1514706.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain…” — Bill Bryson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Bryson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/physics-is-really-nothing-more-than-a-search-for-ultimate-simplicity/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/303/bill-bryson-340_kind_physics-is-really-nothing-more-than-a-se_2512354.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/303/bill-bryson-340_kind_physics-is-really-nothing-more-than-a-se_2512354.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/303/bill-bryson-340_kind_physics-is-really-nothing-more-than-a-se_2512354.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of…” — Bill Bryson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Bryson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/not-writing-the-same-kind-of-book-over-and-over-again-is-to-me-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/bill-bryson-340_book_not-writing-the-same-kind-of-book-over-a_2430700.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/bill-bryson-340_book_not-writing-the-same-kind-of-book-over-a_2430700.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/bill-bryson-340_book_not-writing-the-same-kind-of-book-over-a_2430700.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.” — Bill Bryson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Bryson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/as-the-saying-goes-it-takes-all-kinds-to-make-the-world-go-around/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/bill-bryson-340_all-kinds_as-the-saying-goes-it-takes-all-kinds-to_406246.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/bill-bryson-340_all-kinds_as-the-saying-goes-it-takes-all-kinds-to_406246.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/bill-bryson-340_all-kinds_as-the-saying-goes-it-takes-all-kinds-to_406246.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite…” — Bill Bryson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I still enjoy traveling a lot. 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