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I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked. -- Drew Barrymore
I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. -- Robyn Davidson
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. -- Alexander Cockburn
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. -- Tim Cahill
The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth. -- Paul Theroux
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. -- Paul Theroux
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. -- Tim Cahill
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. -- Tahir Shah
William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India"¦ He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation. -- Robert Twigger
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach. -- Paul Fussell
If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room! -- Arthur Frommer
I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate. -- Michael Palin
The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic. -- Colin Thubron
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you. -- Paul Theroux
My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets. -- Kinky Friedman
Travel definitely affects me as a writer. -- Anthony Doerr
I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer. -- Shantel VanSanten
Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work. -- Tibor Fischer
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe. -- Pat Conroy
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. -- Tim Cahill
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. -- Alan Lightman
Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday! -- Warren Spector
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. -- Andre Gide
In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural. -- James Salter
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
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. -- Paul Theroux
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. -- William Alexander
As a fiction writer, all I need is a laptop, and when I'm not teaching, I travel as much as I can, applying for every research grant and overseas gig I hear of, then trying to extend those trips as far as the stipends will go. I love to travel alone. -- Molly Antopol
What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.' -- Robert Creeley
Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me. -- Ron Sexsmith

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