Random Quote
As a freelance writer I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
Quotes By Paul Theroux
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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground...
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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
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The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation and travel so...
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Tourists don't know where they've been travelers don't know where they're...
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When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central...
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I...
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When I began to make some money I really wanted to have a home.
Quotes About Travel
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There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
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Everything has been homogenized. Over time with television and jet travel...
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Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or...
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I travel the world and I'm happy to say that America is still the great...
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I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy...
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Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as...
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A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very...
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We must go beyond textbooks go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of...
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the...
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Too often travel instead of broadening the mind merely lengthens the...