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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. ↗


— Paul Theroux


#back #book #comes #doing #goes

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. ↗


— Paul Theroux


#cookies #disks #great #greatest #habits

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. ↗


— Paul Theroux


#books #constantly #heard #i #i think

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. ↗


— Paul Theroux


#bed #book #changed #congenial #corporate

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. ↗


— Paul Theroux


#books #finding #four #great #i

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. ↗


— Paul Theroux


#lot #people #read #threatened #who

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. ↗


— Paul Theroux


#another #books #call #central #corps

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. ↗


— Phyllis Theroux


#being #closest #come #creation #hooks

Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended. ↗


— Keith Thibodeaux


#around #attended #birthday #care #crew

I like cooking, but I like other people cooking more. ↗


— David Wenham


#i #like #more #other #people






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