“Your inner light is greater than the darkness. May your light shine brightly in every path you travel.” — Lailah GiftyAkita Copy Share Image
“There are beautiful places everywhere; we just have to travel with a beautiful heart.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
“She daydreams just as I do. She loves watching the raindrops fall slowly from the sky just as I do. She gets… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“There is a Cinzano on the table beside me and a siphon of aerated water. I am at a loss to know… — Peter Mayne Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“A slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window and disappears and becomes part of the past.… — Paul Theroux 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
“Before me and beside me sat a row of the comeliest young men, clad in black gowns and wearing on their shoulders… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler… — Ted Conover Copy Share Image
“You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I don't know where this thing about me being a travel writer comes from. It's nothing to do with me; I hate… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
“You know, I went to Berlin to have relax—' I stopped. Should I tell him about my magic sunglasses? Would that make… — Mariia Manko Copy Share Image
“Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".” — Eamonn Gearon Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I've ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“It feels like flying and landing to all the continents of the world with the use of my imaginary paper that can… — Alexina Benavidez Copy Share Image
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.” — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck’s cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel.… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
“Deferring judgement to a later date resolves nothing and all you are left with is a box of jumbled slides and a… — Will Ferguson 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
