I wouldn’t say that I’m a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. — Paul Theroux
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Paul Theroux : American Novelist
Born: April 10, 1941
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpos…
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he wa…
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspen…
For a novelist, no matter what, it’s a complete work, even i…
As a successful romantic novelist – one of my publishers is …
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has wh…
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpos…
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he wa…
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspen…
For a novelist, no matter what, it’s a complete work, even i…
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it’s ki…
As a successful romantic novelist – one of my publishers is …
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has wh…
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has wh …
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are n…
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have a…
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they ha…
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather t…
I’d rather have huge success and huge failures than travel i…
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble coppe…
What do most people say on their deathbed? They don’t say, ‘…
The unions say ‘last hired – first fired,’, we say hire and …
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s n…
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more th…
When I think it’s good not to say the truth, I don’t say any…
Don’t worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what…
