Airplane Quote by David Foster Wallace

“The techno-political thriller and the romance novel serve as antidotes to the imagination rather than stimulants to it. For this reason they make for…

— Charles Baxter

“A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!”

— Jo Linsdell

“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by the knowing of their destination”

— Eudora Welty

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

— Jane Smiley

Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That…

— Richard Bach

“A traveller learns more than a passenger.”

— Mark Frost

“Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make…

— E. L. Doctorow

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and…

— Andre Gide

“I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his…

— Stephen King

“You think of travelers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the…

— Paul Theroux

Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And…

— Paul Theroux

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

— Erma Bombeck