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Paul Theroux Quotes about Writing

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

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

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt