“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
