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Travel Books Quotes by Paul Theroux
- In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.
- 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…
- The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of…
- I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense,…
More Travel Books Quotes
- Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting… — Phil Cousineau
- My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. — Beverly Cleary
- In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux
- Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro
- Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel… — Paul Theroux
- All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without… — John Green
- The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher… — Paul Theroux
- I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip.… — Paul Theroux
- Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. — Arthur Smith