Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Therouxis an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar. He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 April 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.
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You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.
people traveling
You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.
feed people
People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response.
people
You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are.
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The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.
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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.
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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.
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The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
life people
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
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People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.
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Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job.
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Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.
home thinking people
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.