John Gimlette

I am certainly very pro-Europe.

— John Gimlette

I don't want to sell other people trips! I want to be there!

— John Gimlette

I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.

— John Gimlette

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

— John Gimlette

This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.

— John Gimlette

I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.

— John Gimlette

In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.

— John Gimlette

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

— John Gimlette

I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

— John Gimlette

I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it.

— John Gimlette

Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it's fantastic - but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.

— John Gimlette

There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people…

— John Gimlette

There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling…

— John Gimlette

I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what…

— John Gimlette

I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with…

— John Gimlette

I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am…

— John Gimlette

I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because…

— John Gimlette

Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which…

— John Gimlette

I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we…

— John Gimlette

There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route…

— John Gimlette

I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We…

— John Gimlette

Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn't done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when…

— John Gimlette

The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was…

— John Gimlette

It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time…

— John Gimlette

What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get…

— John Gimlette

There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie…

— John Gimlette

We don't really listen to what the other person is saying. We have gotten used to information being in such a concentrated…

— John Gimlette

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.

— John Gimlette

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

— John Gimlette

Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

— John Gimlette

I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that…

— John Gimlette

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here…

— John Gimlette

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

— John Gimlette

One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.

— John Gimlette

Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because…

— John Gimlette

My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect,…

— John Gimlette

If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting…

— John Gimlette

What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq.…

— John Gimlette

I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in…

— John Gimlette

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics]…

— John Gimlette