Jim Bishop Quotes

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

Jim Bishop

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

Jim Bishop

“What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.”

Jim Bishop

As quoted by Lewis Nichols http://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/30/obituaries/lewis-nichols-times-drama-critic-during-world-war-ii-dead-at-78.html in "Talk With Jim Bishop" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F03EEDE133AE53BBC4E53DFB466838E649EDE, The New York Times (6 February 1955).

“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”

Jim Bishop