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Paul Theroux Travel Quotes


Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in. Paul Theroux Travel 89
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Paul Theroux Travel 89
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. Paul Theroux Travel 89
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. Paul Theroux Travel 71
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. Paul Theroux Travel 63
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. Paul Theroux Travel 63
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Paul Theroux Travel 50
You think of travellers as bold but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. Paul Theroux Travel 46
The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming. Paul Theroux Travel 40
The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction. Paul Theroux Travel 39

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