Quote by Bill Bryson Download Open image ““Even his housekeeper communicated with him by letter.”” — Bill Bryson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“and who writes, he says, because he finds it easier than talking.” — John J. Winters Copy Share Image
“he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But then the blackmail letter came... And everything he’d worked so hard to build threatened to crumble around him.” — T.L. Haddix Copy Share Image
“She tucked the stiff envelope into her pocket and it pressed against her leg all day, reminding her that she had been written to,… — Rosie Alison Copy Share Image
“If he could communicate to her with his body, perhaps he failed to see the need to communicate with words.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“He was just an idea - a collection of responsibilities with a mailing address.” — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“When I wrote to him, I wanted my letters to be sprightly, trivial, indifferent. In spite of myself, I imbued them with my love.… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“I, for my part, never looked forward to anything except the moment the office door closed behind me and I was alone and able… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“He stares at me. “So you’re telling me that you obey all my orders, because honestly that would be news to me?” “I always… — Lily Morton Copy Share Image
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“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… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
