Travel Writing Quotes
Travel Writing Quote of the day
Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.
When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.
The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.
Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
Find the right paths for your journey. Travel along these paths to your final destination.
When you focus on the journey, you will be blessed with guardian angels to direct your path.
...That's the difference between backpackers and holiday makers. The former can't help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it.
Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.
Then I’d go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel’s inspiration. What was different?
Ten years ago I wondered, “How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?” I’ve answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.
I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?
No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me.
I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.
. . . it's part of the adventure!
Only the traveler knows the details of the journey.
If a local doesn't have to pay it, there's a way for traveler's to get around it.
Everything you need to know to enjoy your trip to Italy is in my Conversational Italian for Travelers books!
Travel makes me feel like a bird, Travel gives me a sense of freedom, Travel makes me come alive!
You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered by the flight, you are impatient to get out and sample the streets, the life, the action.
The true adventurer sees his glass as half full even when there are things swimming in it.
When you look closely to the path you have travel on, you will realise that God was always with you, directing every step you took.
Your inner light is greater than the darkness.May your light shine brightly in every path you travel.
I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.
Explore the world with an open mind, a sturdy carry-on, and clothes that don't wrinkle!
When you focus on your travel path, you will observe a divine power, guiding every step of the journey.