"Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves." — Paul Theroux

"Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves."

— 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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More Crummy Quotes

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If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio… — Anthony Bourdain
Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby. — Paavo Haavikko
The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of… — Felix Dennis
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence — Billy Corgan
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret,… — Roger Ebert
It's a lot of work to read a crummy script. — Bill Murray
You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude. — John C. Maxwell
If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a… — Moby
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a… — Andrea Dworkin
All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is… — Bill Budge
Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times? — Charles M. Schulz
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. — Jaron Lanier

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