Paul Theroux Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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Paul Theroux quotes and sayings page 2 (83 year old novelist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 126 we have for him.

“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.”
Paul Theroux Quotes
“I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.”
Paul Theroux Quotes
“I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.”
Paul Theroux Quotes
“Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.”
Paul Theroux Quotes
“Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.”
Paul Theroux Quotes
“When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.”
Paul Theroux Quotes
“Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.”
Paul Theroux Quotes
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
Paul Theroux Quotes
“An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.”
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“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.”

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