Quote by Paul Theroux
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. Its not about inventing. – Paul Theroux

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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldnt say that Im a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. – Paul Theroux

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Travel works best when youre forced to come to terms with the place youre in. – Paul Theroux

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If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. – Nelson A. Miles

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People think Im crazy because I travel too much, but I havent been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and Ive tried to take care of it. – Lee Hazlewood

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Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – Seneca

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You cannot travel within and stand still without. – James Lane Allen

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