Former Quote by Paul Theroux Download Open image “You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.” — Paul Theroux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Former Former friends Friendship Writing
When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt. — Sophie Rundle Copy Share Image
The only time I write with someone else is with one of my friends but I write everything myself. — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them! — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Friends: Only know a few things about you. Best friends: Could write a very embarrassing biography on your life story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice… — George Will Copy Share Image
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Whether Theresa May had stabbed has stabbed the former Mayor of London in the back and Michael Gove had stabbed him in the front.… — Nigel Evans Copy Share Image
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
