James Alonzo “Jim” Bishop (1907–87) was an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book The Day Lincoln was Shot. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he dropped out of school after eighth grade. In 1923, he studied typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping, and in 1929 began work as a copy boy at the New York Daily News.
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A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Critics, Drunkenness, Drinking, Criticism
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
—Jim Bishop
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Age, Fear, Courage, War
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds—a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Love
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Youth
Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Grief
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Future, Live-now
He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Words
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Golf
Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can’t putt.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Golf
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
Topics: News
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Golf
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Reading
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Time Management, Time, The Present, Living
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