The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost…

He who seeks the world, death runs after him; he who seeks the hereafter, the world runs after him.

— Hazrat Ali (as

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

— Paul Theroux

Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And…

— Paul Theroux

“To the traditional traveller—let alone travel writer—this might seem absurd. The whole point of travel is to go deep. To spend time in a…

— Hugh Thomson

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

— Tahir Shah

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

— Drew Barrymore

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

— Tim Cahill

If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single…

— Arthur Frommer

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't…

— Michael Palin

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write…

— Colin Thubron

I don't know where this thing about me being a travel writer comes from. It's nothing to do with me; I hate travel writing.…

— Lawrence Osborne

The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the…

— Jonathan Raban

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

— Paul Fussell

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

— Robyn Davidson

“Ten years ago, he was the hard­work­ing salt of the earth. All he want­ed was to go to Heav­en. Sit­ting here to­day, ev­ery­thing that…

— Chuck Palahniuk