Blood Quote by Ilka Chase

There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly…

— Eudora Welty

“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

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives,…

— Fred Saberhagen

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

I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Unlike many travel books I didn't set out to travel with the idea of writing a book in mind.

— Chesa Boudin

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

— Anthony Doerr

I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a…

— Paul Theroux

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their…

— Laurel Lea

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.

— Greg Iles

I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing it, that…

— Lucas Mann

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid