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" Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter. "

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" People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. "

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

" My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing. "

" People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. "

" The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel. "

" Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite. "

" Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. "

" Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with. "

" I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things. "

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

" A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride. "

" People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job. "

" My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it. "

" 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. "

" Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. "

" The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. "

" Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. "

" One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them. "

" 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. "

" Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever. "

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

" Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. "

" The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely. "

" A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better. "

" 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. "

" It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. "

" The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it. "

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

" One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else. "

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