Quote by Colin Thubron

“Sometimes, you feel yourself weightless, thinned. You draw back the curtains (if there are any) on a rectangle of wasteland at dawn, and realise…

— Colin Thubron

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write…

— Colin Thubron

“Há muito que os comissários do gulag se tinham aposentado, com medalhas e pensões. Nem um único comparecera perante a justiça. A Rússia voltara…

— Colin Thubron

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ...…

— Colin Thubron

“I had a heady dream of loving her, as if she were an actress on a stage of my own making; and as the…

— Colin Thubron

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

— Colin Thubron

Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the…

— Colin Thubron

“As the track bends north-east, the ethereal sandstone disappears. The slopes turn black with granite, and the mountain's lower ridges break into unstable spikes…

— Colin Thubron

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

— Colin Thubron

“Just as the roads at Moscow's heart flow out in concentric ripples from the Kremlin, so this tension too seems to radiate from those…

— Colin Thubron