Paul Theroux Quote

The difference between travel writing and fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy — how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.


The Great Railway Bazaar (1975)


The difference between travel writing and fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows....

The difference between travel writing and fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows....

The difference between travel writing and fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows....

The difference between travel writing and fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows....