I am happy being what I am.
From Paul Theroux
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.
Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. 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 stories of places.
I think I understand passion. Love is something else.
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