Top 77 Quotes About Reading Travel
#1. I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.
Trudi Canavan
#2. My preference is that of a salt-inclined palate over a sweet-craving one, but also one developed through reading, travel, and temperament.
David Tanis
#3. My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order.
Truman Capote
#4. As night falls silently all around,
She carefully turns the last page.
Rachel Lewis
#5. I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants.
Michel Houellebecq
#6. If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.
Rebecca Solnit
#7. I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
Charlize Theron
#8. Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
John Lubbock
#11. We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.
Tom Raabe
#12. But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
Jack Kerouac
#13. To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.
Henry Rollins
#14. So: just drinks, minimal effort on his part, and you have travel to him. Ladies, are you getting sexually excited just reading this?!
Aziz Ansari
#15. When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.
Nicole Lapin
#17. I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it ... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later ...
Cameron Diaz
#18. Both my happiness and unhappiness I owe to the love of pleasure; of sex, travel, reading, conversation (hearing oneself talk), food, drink, cigars and lying in warm water.
Cyril Connolly
#19. Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.
Louise DeSalvo
#20. Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.
Bill Porter
#21. This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.
Rebecca Solnit
#23. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Anna Quindlen
#24. I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole new world in books. If you can't afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.
Michael Jackson
#25. In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.
Jules Verne
#28. I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a huge chunk of my library with me. Usually, when I am writing one project, I am researching the next or beginning to pull together the material for the book after that.
Michael Scott
#29. Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.
Christopher Hitchens
#30. I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.
Christopher Hitchens
#32. Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage.
CJ Fosdick
#33. Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
Alan Bennett
#34. When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.
Tahir Shah
#35. A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.
Katrina Mayer
#36. With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances vary, but the formula is the same. They're having problems reading, having problems grasping some of the things that are being taught to them.
Malik Yusef
#37. I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.
Muhammad Ali
#38. When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.
Rick Riordan
#39. For me, books have always been the greatest gifts. I love to give and receive them because I know they are a reflection of the giver.
Colleen Mariotti
#40. My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#41. There's no such things as travel insurance when it comes to reading.
Maureen Corrigan
#42. Travel now by all means - if you have the time. But travel the right way, the way I travel. I am always reading and thinking of the history and geography of a place. I see its people in terms of these, placed in the social framework of time and space.
Oliver Sacks
#45. Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
Maria Montessori
#46. Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
Rachel Nichols
#48. I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
Rachel Boston
#49. In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.
Paul Theroux
#50. If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.
Paul Theroux
#51. ...To see your life flow in obscurity among the treasures of the heart and of nature, happy in your anonymity, and to occasionally lose yourself in reading or in the pleasure of being a sensitive admirer of the fine arts; that's the image of modern life you're looking for!
Paul Amadeus Dienach
#52. The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.
Johan Huizinga
#53. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.
D.E. Stevenson
#54. Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books.
Paul Theroux
#55. I write to get ideas out of my head
Bobbi Kay
#56. Life is a journey where people travel through each other's memories. If you want to keep a secret well, keep it from yourself
S.E. Sever
#57. The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike.
Marsden Hartley
#58. Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#59. At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.
Tasha Alexander
#60. Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.
Mahmud Tarzi
#61. I have my own e-reader, but I hardly ever use it. I need to fold down pages and flag passages with sticky notes. I need to experience books, not just read them. I never go anywhere without a book in my bag, and to travel across the ocean, I'd packed more than my fair share.
Lauren Morrill
#62. It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story The Book-Bag.
Robin McKinley
#63. Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.
David Levithan
#64. Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky.
Rachel Lewis
#65. Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you'd been reading.
Chuck Palahniuk
#66. I promote reading. I travel anywhere any time. In my books the indivuals face fears, issues, love, friendships, and are reminded qently that God is near! Great reads by Linda Green, Rosemary barkes,Liz Thompson, Richard Paul Evans
Susan Kay Box Brunner
#67. In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
Anna Quindlen
#68. She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more comfortable.
Zanesh Catkin
#69. I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.
Max Irons
#70. Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought
and more reading.
Jasper Fforde
#71. Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.
John Steinbeck
#72. A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story.
Rachel Lewis
#73. Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.
Teresa Mummert
#74. Reading is poor man's way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people.
Anonymous
#76. Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through time.
A.A. Patawaran
#77. To read the papers and to listen to the news ... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
Charles Kuralt
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