Books Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

— Tea Obreht

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write…

— Steven Heighton

“Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or the indecisive. The best of…

— Tom Miller

I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with…

— Chelsea Cain

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

— Jack Dann

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write…

— Colin Thubron

I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding…

— Paul Theroux

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she…

— Dani Shapiro

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

— Chesa Boudin

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

— Sue Grafton

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in…

— Freya Stark

“Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps.”

— Harry Bauld