The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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.
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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