Paul Theroux Quotes About Home

• El deseo de desaparecer aleja a muchos viajeros. Si está harto de que le hagan esperar en casa o en el trabajo, viajar es perfecto: para variar, que esperen los demás. Viajar es una especie de venganza por haber sido puesto en espera, por tener que dejar mensajes en los contestadores automáticos, por no conocer la extensión de su interlocutor, por haber estado esperando toda su vida laboral: los irritantes del escritor a domicilio. Pero la espera también es una condición humana.

  Paul Theroux

  Revenge, Party, Home

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

• Todos los viajes son circulares. Me habían sacudido a través de Asia, haciendo una parábola en uno de los hemisferios del planeta. Al fin y al cabo, el gran viaje no es más que la forma que tiene el hombre inspirado de volver a casa.

  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.

• 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

• 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

  Viajes, Hogar, Hombres

  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

  Hogar, Pensamiento, Personas

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