A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a g… — Jim Bishop

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

Jim BishopJournalist · American · b. 1907

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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. — Jim Bishop
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. — Jim Bishop
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop