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" Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. "

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" Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving. "

" Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. "

" It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. "

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

" 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. "

" Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories. "

" The more you write, the more you're capable of writing. "

" 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. "

" The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume. "

" When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home. "

" 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. "

" Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. "

" The Trans-Siberian Express is like a cruise across an oceanic landscape. I've done it three times. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response. "

" I do not want to be young again. "

" Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease. "

" 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. "

" When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen. "

" Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. "

" A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form. "

" Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions. "