I prefer all but the very worst travel books to all but the very best novels.
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
Screenplays I didn't really care about journalism travel books getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different an outsider almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip or because they would never take that trip. In a sense as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
For books I don't read much fiction but like travel essays and good pop-science.
Travel books are by and large boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact fiction and autobiography.
Travel the world learn other languages demand liberty despise violence read books and keep a dictionary nearby.
I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me it was books and travel and some good teachers.
Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere meet anyone and do anything.
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know you will have to go.
My grandfather says that's what books are for " Ashoke said using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.
I travel a lot to research the locales for the books. I have professional contacts that I can ask questions of or show them scenes to vet.