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" 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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" I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place. "

" I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel. "

" During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change. "

" I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with. "

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" I wholeheartedly believe that travel leads to open minds and contributes to a better cultural understanding and acceptance of people from around the world. "

" Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies. "

" The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive? "

" I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. "

" Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. "

" And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? "

" To travel America and see everything it has to offer, with my best friend, sounds like the perfect road trip. "

" Big climbs energize me. It's all the other aspects of being a pro-climber that wear me down. The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring. But the actual big climbs - that's what I live for. "

Alex Honnold

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" I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel. "

Vijay Mallya

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" I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. "

" Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you. "

" The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience. "

" My ideal travel companions are my family. "

" I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. "

" I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places. "

" We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more. "

" I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. "

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" I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. "

" You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. "

" I travel a lot, so I know that it's important to have people in your life to keep you ground. "

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

" My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too. "

" You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something. "

" I really love mountain sports, hiking, skiing, and I love to travel and get to know different places and cultures. "

" I loved working on 'Happy Gilmore' because I love to travel to new places and we got to go to British Columbia. Any Adam Sandler film is fun to work on because it is a reunion of the boys club of guys that have worked together in the past. "