A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Quote by Jim Bishop

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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into...

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into...

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and...

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and...

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar...

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar...

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out...

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out...

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than...

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than...

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed,...

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed,...

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It...

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It...

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out...

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out...

I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close...

I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close...

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who...

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who...

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father...

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father...

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing...

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing...

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar...

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar...

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is...

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is...

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who...

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who...

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.