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

Topics: Writers Quotes

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...

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

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...

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief...

Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

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

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

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...

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...

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...