Best quotes by Paul Theroux on Travel

Checkout quotes by Paul Theroux on Travel

• ‟ Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

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• ‟ Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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• ‟ The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

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• ‟ Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.

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• ‟ One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.

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• ‟ Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

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