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Paul Theroux

What strikes me about high-sch...

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

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Paul Theroux

What draws me in is that a tri...

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

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Paul Theroux

There are places that I've al...

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.

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Paul Theroux

My earliest thought, long befo...

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

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Paul Theroux

Africa is really a place for t...

Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.

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Paul Theroux

I feel as if my mission is to ...

I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.

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Paul Theroux

Many small towns I know in Mai...

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.

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Paul Theroux

I should start by saying that ...

I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.

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Paul Theroux

I was kind of raised with the ...

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

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Paul Theroux

You need to be on your own so ...

You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are.

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Paul Theroux

A place that doesn't welcome ...

A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.

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Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem...

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

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Paul Theroux

The people I've known who've...

The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.

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Paul Theroux

My father had an invisible job...

My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups and downs of a writer's life.

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Paul Theroux

You can't separate the people...

You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.

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Paul Theroux

To me, writing is a considered...

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

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Paul Theroux

There are two places that are ...

There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody, and then the place that's never been written about.

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Paul Theroux

I think there is only one way ...

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

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Paul Theroux

The place that interests me mo...

The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see.

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Paul Theroux

I think people read travel boo...

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.

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