Bill Bryson Quotes

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

I've always liked new writing.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

You become a great writer by writing.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I write novels and other things.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

Writing isn't everyone's favorite thing to do or what their thing is.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.