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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. It's not about inventing.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
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 stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.
Quote by -Paul Theroux
There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune." "You'll have to risk it...and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related." Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?
Quote by -Rick Riordan
My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
I learned to ski in the Dolomites at the age of five. Ski lifts didn't exist then, so I did everything on foot.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, 'He does all these crazy things.' But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, 'Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen - impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.'
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
Before kids, I was really going to the limit. Afterwards, I was approaching the limit but then maybe turning around.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
Around half of the top alpinists have died climbing. Of course if I'm careful and turn back more often than the others, I can increase my chances of survival. But if I hadn't been lucky a few times, I wouldn't be here.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
My brother is in me. When we remember somebody else, in a certain way they are still alive. I see my brother - he is still young - looking to the Dolomites where we did our ascents. I remember those moments, so he is still together with me.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
I have the feeling that behind a certain dimension we cannot anymore see, understand, feel, smell, hear - nothing. What people are calling God I am not defining, but I am a 'possibilitiest.'
Quote by -Reinhold Messner