“Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.” — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“That’s why people require travel books on the 1960s, I thought. They want to go there. They want to feel that sun… — Roger Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Unlike many travel books I didn't set out to travel with the idea of writing a book in mind. — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, you begin to realize how short life is.… — Nicholas Kontis Copy Share Image
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of travel books before I came here. Fantasised what it would be like. I read Scott’s journal. Those… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
“The Exciting Story of Cuba has been in demand more than I ever expected. I believe that this is partly because of… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
“So I can understand the mad passion for travel books and their deceptiveness. They create the illusion of something which no longer… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
