"People who don't read books a lot are…" — Paul Theroux

"People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books."

— Paul Theroux

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148 Quotes by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux has 148 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his…
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience -…
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind…
Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and…
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the…
My greatest inspiration is memory.
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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