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Writer Quotes by Paul Theroux
- Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.
- The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
- When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary…
- 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…
- For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
- Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,”…
- He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.
- 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,…
- The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.
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