Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere
I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these... →
Luke Bryan
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
James Bryce
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... →
Bill Bryson
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... →
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... →
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.
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.
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... →
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... →