Book Quote by Bill Bryson

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the…

— Norman Rockwell

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

— Paul McCartney

I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening,…

— Peter Weiss

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

— Martin Amis

One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get books. I…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the…

— Gil Kane

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and…

— Eavan Boland

All the time I see things that remind me very much of the 1930s.

— Mikis Theodorakis

It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would…

— Helmut Newton

I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and…

— Mary Ruefle

I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in…

— Haruki Murakami

Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read,…

— Albert Camus