Paul Theroux Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.”

“Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.”

“My greatest inspiration is memory.”

“My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.”

“The Trans-Siberian Express is like a cruise across an oceanic landscape. I've done it three times.”

“To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.”

“The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world.”

“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.”

“I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.”

“Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.”