Asian Quote by Lawrence Osborne

There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily…

— Lawrence Osborne

I made the decision that I didn't want to spend my life in rooms and write about rooms, or else make books that are…

— Lawrence Osborne

'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire book is…

— Lawrence Osborne

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In…

— Lawrence Osborne

The drinker is a Dionysiac, a dancer who sits still, a mocker. He doesn't need your seriousness or your regard. He just needs a…

— Lawrence Osborne

Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly…

— Lawrence Osborne

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and dread, and…

— Lawrence Osborne

Mongolians are epic drinkers and carousers, and in this respect, they are extremely congenial to my own way of thinking.

— Lawrence Osborne

One winter, I went to Erfoud to research trilobites and got to know the quarries, the dealers, and the remote mining villages. They are…

— Lawrence Osborne

Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths…

— Lawrence Osborne

I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young - my wife was from there - and I had…

— Lawrence Osborne