Travel Novel Quotes

#1. For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research.

Andrew Sean Greer

#2. I don't want to look. I've got to look." Vance ... "Vital Perception

D.L. Given

#3. Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

Lewis Buzbee

#4. We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

Kathryn Joyce

#5. So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

Brian Henson

#6. You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Lori Singer

#7. If you travel long enough, every story becomes a novel.

Gloria Steinem

#8. A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

Margery Allingham

#9. I used to be really anxious about money. I got that from my parents. I still am, but for entirely different reasons.

Dustin Moskovitz

#10. One should learn to connect the bridge between the heart and the mind. That's what crowns you with eternity, and makes you the master of your own life rather than a slave of someone else's.

Iva Kenaz

#11. A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Julia Alvarez

#12. We are most effective when we are able to lean in fully to the resource of the other people in our lives.

Henry Kimsey-House

#13. My girlfriend said: 'If you loved me you wouldn't drink so much', I said: 'If I didn't drink so much I probably wouldn't love you'.

Gary Mule Deer

#14. My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.

Bart D. Ehrman

#15. Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my next novel, I finally started telling people that I was a writer. I remember how special that year felt.

James Bernard Frost

#16. We're going to make a tunnel for that ship. We're going to make sure that little lady has every chance in the world to survive. If I get any trouble out of any of ya ... " he paused. "I'll handle it myself, do you understand?" Johan ... "Vital Perception

D.L. Given

#17. The couch and I were what I would describe as frenemies. I loved to hate it. It was too small for my frame. I had tried to tell my wife that fact when we bought it off of Craigslist, but she assured me that it went perfectly with our room decor and it was a good deal.

Anna M. Aquino

#18. Belief has nothing to do with facts,
especially for the unbelievable facts.

Toba Beta

#19. We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity.

Anna M. Aquino

#20. But just look at her, he thought. How can there be this much treasure all in one place, and the world still here?

Rafi Zabor

#21. They weren't people that liked change. They were the kind of people that would have tied change to a chair with dental floss if they could in order to avoid it. They were the type of people who desired to live in their virtual bubbles and grew to resent anyone that challenged that world.

Anna M. Aquino

#22. Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

Jonathan Raban

#23. I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

Elie Wiesel

#24. Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, simply a fictitious narrative.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#25. I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

Evelyn Waugh

#26. I looked up at the wall. My bachelor's degree had been in History. Films like Back to the Future and Quantum Leap had been some of my favorite programs. Could time travel really be possible? This seemed too unreal.

Anna M. Aquino

#27. I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.

Willis Earl Beal

#28. It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.

Oscar Hijuelos

#29. Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face.

Karl Pilkington

#30. Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I'm in more trouble than I can guess, but if you don't want my help ... maybe I should have just stayed home.

D.L. Given

#31. WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

Anita Shreve

#32. From my novel, "A Twist in Travel:Fate," "What, you've never seen a grown man naked?!

Bobby Simonds

#33. He embraced political power not as an end in itself, but for what it could accomplish for the betterment of society;

Mungo MacCallum

#34. Good travel books are novels at heart.

Jonathan Raban

#35. When she asked what my father taught me, I told her I couldn't put it into words. But then I lay awake watching the snow fall outside and came up with this: how brave a thing it was for him to try to rediscover something, even if it was only himself, not a continent.

Peter Geye

#36. The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.

John Playfair

#37. The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Gregory Maguire

#38. Yeah, well. I don't try to be awesome. It just comes natural.

Rick Riordan

#39. Like I've told you before, Beverly, I don't care where we live as long as we're together." Vance ... "The Elder Effect

D.L. Given