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Book Quotes by Bill Bryson
- America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
- Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but…
- 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…
- The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to…
- 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…
- To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be…
- For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical…
- On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to…
- 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 attain…
- I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally…
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