Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations. — Eugene Linden 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
“Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.” — Alfred Zappala 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
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
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“All writing is travel writing, it just depends which direction you are going.” — Eric D. Lehman Copy Share Image
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark… — Graham Lowe Copy Share Image
“Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile ‘cigarette and sweets’ stand all fought our taxi for… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the… — Paul Fussell 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
“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
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
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
“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
“...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
“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
“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
“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
“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
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary — Mary Anne Radmacher 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
“The green sea tortoise swim unhindered through them; this quiet underworld has here from time immemorial.” — Mehreen Ahmed Copy Share Image
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller” — Sam Miller Copy Share Image
“It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.” — Gerry Abbey 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
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
“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
“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
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
“We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top… — Pete McCarthy Copy Share Image
