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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Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society. – Jung Chang

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Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents. – Martin McGuinness

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The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s. – Maureen OHara

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Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. – Regina Nadelson

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