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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

Topics: Book Came Corner Did Else End Lives Myself Nothing Painted People Period Summer Whole Writing

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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

Topics: Any Basic Book Challenge Engaged Four Going Keep Know More Subject Three Want Will Working Years You

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I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: American Around Books Like Lot Research Revolves Something Thinking Which Writing

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I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Alive America Been Country Ever Gratifying Had Imagine Known More No Country Place Prosperity Than Time 1950S

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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Constantly Disappointed Easily Know Me Seems Very Whether

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I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: About Angry Better Books Get Opportunity Tend Things Time Vent Want

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Cheapness is a great virtue.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Great Virtue

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I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: About Anything Comic Device Family Hang Instinct Interest Just Kind Life Life Story My Life Myself Observations Story Tell Use Which World

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The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet that a country has been the dominant force in the world and it has actually been a force for good... America really deserves more credit.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Actually America Be The First Been Country Credit Deserves Dominant First First Time Force Good Got History Lucky More Planet Really Time Very Whole World

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Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Actually America Anything Anywhere Back Bad Does Ever Good Intentionally Judgments Kind Large Little Make Mean Mistakes Really Regimes Sometimes Things Think Very Wrong

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 8th, 1951

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