Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop
James Alonzo "Jim" Bishopwas an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book The Day Lincoln was Shot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth21 November 1907
CountryUnited States of America
real writing men
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.
united-states newspapers said
Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.
history guy good-writers
A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.
children stories tilt
Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.
birthday friendly looks
At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
facts stories prisoner
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
ice-cream chocolate cows
Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
men interesting people
A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.
growing-up age ink
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.
distance book feet
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
book drunk bartending
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
golf lakes balls
A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.
men care want
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
youth including
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.