Travel Writer Quotes

#1. The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

Paul Theroux

#2. And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

Paul Fussell

#3. I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

Drew Barrymore

#4. I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

Michael Palin

#5. Such are the humiliations of the travel writer in the late 20th century: go to the ends of the earth to search for the most exotic heretics in the world, and you will find that they have cornered the kebab business at the end of your street in London.

William Dalrymple

#6. You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Tim Cahill

#7. The travel writer Bruce Chatwin wrote that our nomadic past lives on in our need for distraction, our mania for the new.

Gloria Steinem

#8. William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India ... He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.

Robert Twigger

#9. To the traditional traveller - let alone travel writer - this might seem absurd. The whole point of travel is to go deep. To spend time in a place, to get under its skin. How can one possibly appreciate what makes a city or a country tick in a bare ten hours

Hugh Thomson

#10. Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.

Paul Theroux

#11. The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

Colin Thubron

#12. If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!

Arthur Frommer

#13. As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

Tahir Shah

#14. You don't need moolah if you're a travel writer," I said.

Jeff Soloway

#15. I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Robyn Davidson

#16. The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Alexander Cockburn

#17. You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last!

Avijeet Das

#18. Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Anthony Doerr

#19. A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

Cyril Connolly

#20. I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.

Shantel VanSanten

#21. Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.

Jill Paton Walsh

#22. As a fiction writer, all I need is a laptop, and when I'm not teaching, I travel as much as I can, applying for every research grant and overseas gig I hear of, then trying to extend those trips as far as the stipends will go. I love to travel alone.

Molly Antopol

#23. He regarded himself as an accomplished writer - a clear sign of madness in anyone.

Paul Theroux

#24. I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...

Avijeet Das

#25. But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

Majel Barrett

#26. 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

#27. What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

Brad Gooch

#28. Writing is not always a writer's playtime. It's actually a work in progress. Few understand this and mistakenly believe we're wasting time. But it's never a waste of time when doing what you love.

David Lucero

#29. One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might even be a story about an actual trip to Mars!

Michael Flynn

#30. Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.

Ron Sexsmith

#31. I want to design for the working women. Okay well - it sounds like 90% of us are that. But really, we are more. We are working women who like to cook, to travel; we are a girlfriend, a writer. We are so much more than just being defined by the one job we have.

Sarah Lafleur

#32. Travel for a writer means placing diamonds in memory.

Kevin R. Hill

#33. Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

Warren Spector

#34. As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self - the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells - and keep an objective eye on the reader.

William Zinsser

#35. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Andre Gide

#36. Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#37. I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.

Paul Theroux

#38. You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

Tim Cahill

#39. Isolation filled with loud silence is a writer's paradise. I wonder how far north toward the Mediterranean must I travel to get there.

Terry A. O'Neal

#40. 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

#41. In order to be a better writer, one must always write.

Safa Shaqsy

#42. I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.

Paul Theroux

#43. What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

Robert Creeley

#44. Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.

Sara Sheridan

#45. The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it

Guido Colombo

#46. In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

James Salter