Best Paul Theroux Quotations
- I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. Across
- It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. Expensive
- My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it. Desire
- People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. Few
- People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. Book
- The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming. Amount
- The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. Corps
- When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there. Hong
- Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. Crummy
- You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend. Former
- You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in. All
- I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With… Better
- A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and… Book
- Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate… Activities
- I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great… Archive
- Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor… Britain
- Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits… Aspect
- Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather… Background
- People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write… Boring
- When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for… Africa
- For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer. Complacency
- travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts. Equal
- Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication has been good… Arrogant
- The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect:… All
- Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way Confident
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