Paul Theroux Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

  Paul Theroux

  Revenge, Party, Home

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

  Paul Theroux

  Home, Men, Hemisphere

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

  Paul Theroux

  Mother, Morning, Home

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". The Atlantic Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

• It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

  Paul Theroux

  Memories, Home, Perfect

  Paul Theroux (2001). “Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• ... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Home, Men

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

  Paul Theroux

  Home, Thinking, People

• When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

  Paul Theroux

  Home, Wanted

  "I don't think there's genius in my writing". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2001.

• Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

  Paul Theroux

  Home, Impossible, Subjects

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