Paul Theroux Quotes about Home

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Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

Paul Theroux

Home, Impossible, Subjects

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

Paul Theroux

Mother, Morning, Home

"Fiction in the Age of E-Books". The Atlantic Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Paul Theroux

Travel, Home, Men

Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

Paul Theroux

Home, Thinking, People

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

Paul Theroux

Home, Wanted

"I don't think there's genius in my writing". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2001.

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Paul Theroux

Home, Men, Hemisphere

Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

Paul Theroux

Revenge, Party, Home

Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

Paul Theroux

Memories, Home, Perfect

Paul Theroux (2001). “Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Paul Theroux Quotes about Home

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