John Gimlette Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie trip. In Britain we are unashamed about any travel company paying for you to go and then writing about it. That's the only way we can do it. But I have tried the same in the States, and I can't write for any sizeable American newspaper because they tell you to do it on this basis.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Differences, Way

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, People, Age

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• I don't therefore know how to write for the big papers. It must be kids - students - and retired people. And the reality is they are overwhelmed with people sending in their holiday stories and bits and pieces and so on.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Holiday, Kids

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• I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Writing, People

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• I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because I fear writing the same book all over again. That's why I am taking a break and doing something different this time.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Writing, Different

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• I often think I would like to come even closer to home and write about somewhere like Wales, for example - which we in England tend to be a little snooty about. That's where the coal comes from and that sort of thing.

  John Gimlette

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Healthy, Demand

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• I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Fiction, Stage

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• I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.

  John Gimlette

  Strong, Writing, Feel Better

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• There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, People, Laughing

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• One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Humility, Personality

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• I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to be back in France and Germany, and I want people to enjoy these books for the writing and not because they feel they can laugh - some will laugh - at these eccentric places, that's not what I intend.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, People, Upset

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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