Paul Theroux - Book Quotes

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People do not become writers out of healthy literary impulse, but out of a deep loneliness, a deficiency, a kind of dysfunction... and on the positive side, they turn to books for solace. It's all sorts of things. It's conceit. It's signalling for attention. People who are normal don't become writers.

Paul Theroux

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Paul Theroux

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

Paul Theroux