“I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to wr...” — Bill Bryson Quote

“I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.”

“A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.”

“This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly looking elderly man with whom Fortey chatted genially and familiarly as we proceeded upwards at about the rate that sediments are laid down.”

“The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.”

“I'm super happy to say that it's not that hard to write bad stand-up. I guess the trick is to write bad stand-up that sounds like you're trying to be good.”

“I played football for 12 years, but I would always trick myself into exercise, like by taking a dance class.”