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Colin Thubron Quotes

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

Colin Thubron
Taken, Journey, Long
Colin Thubron (2011). “To a Mountain in Tibet”, p.12, Harper Collins

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

Colin Thubron
Journey, Nerves, World
Colin Thubron (2009). “Shadow of the Silk Road”, p.2, Harper Collins

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

Colin Thubron
Real, Past, Stories

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

Colin Thubron
Writing, Needs, Tough

Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.

Colin Thubron
Dream, Adventure, Men

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