John Gimlette Quotes

• I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in my books at the end of the day you come across with the impression that I really admire both of these places.

  John Gimlette

  Book, People, Laughing

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• Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn't done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that sort of thing - and therefore its not only an exploration of the place but also his imagination in a sense. It's very successful as technique.

  John Gimlette

  Dog, Successful, Ice

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• Tengo la ligera sensación de que, después de haber escrito Paraguay y Terranova -y ambos han desarrollado excentricidades debido al aislamiento-, me siento bastante aliviado de estar de vuelta en Francia y Alemania, y quiero que la gente disfrute de estos libros por la escritura y no porque sientan que pueden reírse -algunos se reirán- de estos lugares excéntricos, no es eso lo que pretendo.

  John Gimlette

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

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• It never stops me from saying what I want to say about Ethiopia, the fact that a tour company is paid for me to go there. Book reviewers don't pay for the books they review.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Want, Pay

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• We don't really listen to what the other person is saying. We have gotten used to information being in such a concentrated form all the time, and so continuously, that conversation somehow seems inadequate for a lot of people, and therefore they can't join in it. You notice how many people can't argue anymore - without getting very upset.

  John Gimlette

  People, Upset, Information

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• The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that.

  John Gimlette

  Wish, Noise, Portugal

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• I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We are constantly surprised by this noise and television. It means that's what we are going to get, because we always get everything eventually.

  John Gimlette

  Mean, Boston, Different

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• There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie trip. In Britain we are unashamed about any travel company paying for you to go and then writing about it. That's the only way we can do it. But I have tried the same in the States, and I can't write for any sizeable American newspaper because they tell you to do it on this basis.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Differences, Way

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• If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Giving, Lists

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• A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

  John Gimlette

  Book, Reading, Given

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• There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, People, Laughing

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• Eso es más sobre el estilo de vida [Peter Mayles], vivir en el extranjero. Se trata de comprar un burro y una casa en el sur de Francia, y eso es algo ligeramente diferente. Es un género muy popular, pero no es lo mío.

  John Gimlette

  House, Different, Buying

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• People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are an empire any longer after all.

  John Gimlette

  Pensar, Europa, Gente

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• My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it.

  John Gimlette

  Real, Thinking, Europe

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• Mis padres probablemente se sienten más cercanos a Estados Unidos. Sienten que Estados Unidos vino a rescatarnos en la guerra y todo ese tipo de cosas. Y para su generación, la guerra continúa. Seguimos guardando comida y al día siguiente sacamos trocitos y los hervimos.

  John Gimlette

  War, Next Day, America

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• Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

  John Gimlette

  Giving Up, Ideas, Diplomats

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• The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in. And then people said if you do that you'll hit glass ceilings all the time, because you are not Ghanian or Nigerian and that's the way to progress though a multinational organization like that. In any event, they said do five years' legal experience and come back. And after five years I decided to stay where I was. So I am really an accidental lawyer.

  John Gimlette

  Glasses, Years, Organization

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• Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

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  Thinking, Age, Impression

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• I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city.

  John Gimlette

  Cities, Diplomats, Sometimes

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• I don't want to sell other people trips! I want to be there!

  John Gimlette

  People, Want, Sells

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• I often think I would like to come even closer to home and write about somewhere like Wales, for example - which we in England tend to be a little snooty about. That's where the coal comes from and that sort of thing.

  John Gimlette

  Inicio, Escribir, Pensar

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• I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because I fear writing the same book all over again. That's why I am taking a break and doing something different this time.

  John Gimlette

  Libro, Escritura, Diferente

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• India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

  John Gimlette

  Strong, Father, Blood

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• American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Healthy, Demand

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• Lo fascinante es de dónde vienen en el mundo. Gente de Bangladesh, un tipo en una base de bomberos en Tikrit, Irak. Un tipo en un pub irlandés en Dublín. Y es encantador pensar que esta red literaria -o más bien red de lectores- está bien extendida.

  John Gimlette

  Thinking, Fire, Iraq

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