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I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Again Beat Been Book Company Even Go Go Home He Home Life Make Number Number Three Once Phone Point Quietly Ready See Since Spring Things Three Until Waiter You

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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 dull and trying to make them interesting.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Another Book Dull Enjoy Generally Histories Interesting Make Plan Science Subjects Taking Them Trying Write Writing

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I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: About America Baseball Been Book Longest Longest Time Me Miss Nobody One Thing Really The One Thing Thing Time Wanting Will

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I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Again Beat Book Company Go Go Home He Home Life Make Once Phone Ready See Things Three Until Waiter You

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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 as if you are much more important than you are, you can eat steak three times a day at someone else's expense, and you get to talk endlessly about yourself for weeks at a stretch.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: About Big Book Car Day Driven Eat Else Endlessly Everywhere Expense Fun Get Hotels Important Kind More Much Nice Really Silver Someone Stay Steak Stretch Talk Than Three Times Tours Treated Weeks You Yourself

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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 playing countries.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Always Baseball Book Countries Following Large Large Part Love Part Playing Problem Very Wanted I Love

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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 in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Airport Book Computer Continue Exactly Exactly The Same Fact Fire Greatest Home Hotel Hotel Room Invention Laptop Left Lifetime Lounge Me Miracle Place Room Same Up Working I Can

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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.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Book Britain Did Encouraged First Kind Me More Publishers Successful Travel

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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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