Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine. Paul Theroux Read Quote
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. Paul Theroux Read Quote
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. Paul Theroux Read Quote
I think there is only one way to write fiction – alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. Paul Theroux Read Quote
A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them – jobs, money, pride. Paul Theroux Read Quote
I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction – that there is a certain network. Paul Theroux Read Quote
I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about. Paul Theroux Read Quote
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. Paul Theroux Read Quote
