Jan Morris - Travel Quotes

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I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. I believe in its imaginative qualities and its potential as art and literature.

Jan Morris

I generally travel alone, but sometimes with my partner, with whom I've lived for forty years. But dearly though I love her, if I'm going to be working I find I'm better on my own. Love is rather inhibiting in my view.

Jan Morris

I've become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.

Jan Morris