There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and… — Cesare Pavese 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
“Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.” — Alfred Zappala Copy Share Image
“Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Your inner light is greater than the darkness. May your light shine brightly in every path you travel.” — Lailah GiftyAkita Copy Share Image
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in… — Pico Iyer 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
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
I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing… — John Gimlette 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
“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
“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
“...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
“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
“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
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
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
“Sometimes, you feel yourself weightless, thinned. You draw back the curtains (if there are any) on a rectangle of wasteland at dawn,… — Colin Thubron Copy Share Image
“Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But… — Judith Schalansky 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
“...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
“We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Finally, after a glance at Notre Dame and a brisk trot through the Louvre, we sat down at a cafe on the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
“A bare two years after Vasco da Gama’s voyage a Portuguese fleet led by Pedro Alvarez Cabral arrived on the Malabar coast.… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
“You think of travelers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“...Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to b assimilated into India, or Tibet, or Nepal. Vietnam,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“The name Kyirong means “the village of happiness,” and it really deserves the name. I shall never cease thinking of this place… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections,… — Ernesto Che Guevara Copy Share Image
