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I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

From Bill Bryson

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

From Bill Bryson

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.

From Bill Bryson

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.

From Bill Bryson

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

From Bill Bryson

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.

From Bill Bryson

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

From Bill Bryson

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

From Bill Bryson

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.

From Bill Bryson

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