Airports Quote by William H. Gass

“Reading inspires us to reach further, imagine more, and search for our passports.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

Ones destination is never a place but a new way of looking at things

— Richie

“Travel can broaden our perspective, enabling us to rise above the advertiser-driven infotainment we call the news to see things as citizens of the…

— Rick Steves

“It is my hope that this book will help to demystify the origins of travel writing and show that when thousands of travelers follow…

— Thomas Kohnstamm

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

— John Muir

Travel opens eyes and perspectives.

— Henry Golding

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

— Eudora Welty

The world is like a book, if you do not travel you only read a page

— Anonymous

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

— Mason Cooley

“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

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

— Harry Bauld

“Every story is a travel story – a spatial practice.”

— Michel de Certeau