Paul Theroux Travel Quotes

What did Paul Theroux say about Travel?

Paul Theroux has written many quotes about Travel. E.g.,

• You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
• Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
• Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

What are the top most famous Travel quotes by Paul Theroux?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Travel by Paul Theroux.

• You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
• Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
• Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
• Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
• The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
• Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
• 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.
• 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.