John Gould Quotes


"I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading."
- John Gould
(Related: Reading, Worth)

"Our great American writers were all newspaper people."
- John Gould
(Related: People, American, Writers)

"If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble."
- John Gould
(Related: Trouble)

"At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold."
- John Gould
(Related: Time, Wife, People, American, Beginning, Old, Pretty, World)