Travel Books Quotes

• Viajar te deja sin palabras y te convierte en un narrador de historias.

  Ibn Battuta

  Inspiración, Viajes, Aventuras

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• Un buen viajero no tiene planes fijos y no pretende llegar.

  Laozi

  Inspiración, Vida, Verano

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• Viajar es fatal para los prejuicios, el fanatismo y la estrechez de miras, y muchos de nuestros pueblos lo necesitan urgentemente por estos motivos. Una visión amplia, sana y caritativa de los hombres y las cosas no puede adquirirse vegetando en un pequeño rincón de la tierra durante toda la vida.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiración, Vida, Viajes

  Mark Twain Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). "Mark Twain en la punta de los dedos: A Book of Quotations", p.479, Courier Corporation

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• Viajar es fatal para los prejuicios, el fanatismo y la estrechez de miras.

  Mark Twain

  Viajes, diversión, aventura

  Mark Twain (2008). "Los inocentes en el extranjero", p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• No es oro todo lo que reluce.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Ser fuerte, Viajes, Novelas fantásticas

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). "La Comunidad del Anillo: Primera parte de El Señor de los Anillos", p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• Cuanto más leas, más cosas sabrás.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educativo, Lectura, Lugares de interés

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• I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Book, Sleep, Technology

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• En los mejores libros de viajes, la palabra sola está implícita en cada página emocionante, tan sutil e inerradicable como una marca de agua.

  Paul Theroux

  Viajar, Libro, Lectura

  Paul Theroux (2011). "El Tao de los viajes: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road", p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• Durante todo este tiempo -no sólo desde que se fue, sino durante una década antes- me la había estado imaginando sin escucharla, sin saber que hacía una ventana tan pobre como yo. Y por eso no podía imaginarla como una persona que podía sentir miedo, que podía sentirse aislada en una habitación llena de gente, que podía ser tímida con su colección de discos porque era demasiado personal para compartirla. Alguien que podría haber leído libros de viajes para escapar de tener que vivir en la ciudad a la que tanta gente escapa. Alguien que, como nadie la consideraba una persona, no tenía a nadie con quien hablar.

  John Green

  Libro, Saber, Gente

  John Green (2010). "Ciudades de papel", p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Un libro de viajes es un libro que te pone en la piel del viajero, y suele ser un libro sobre pasarlo muy mal, pasarlo fatal, mejor aún. No quieres leer un libro sobre alguien que se lo pasa muy bien en el sur de Francia, comiendo y bebiendo y enamorándose. Lo que quieres leer es un libro sobre un tipo atravesando la selva, atravesando la nieve ártica, pasándolo fatal intentando cruzar el Sáhara y resolviendo problemas sobre la marcha.

  Paul Theroux

  Enamorarse, Beber, Libro

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.

  Paul Theroux

  Fuerte, Libro, Escritura

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Book, Romance

  Paul Fussell (1982). “Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars”, p.203, Oxford University Press

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• I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

  Ilka Chase

  Book, Eye, Voice

  Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Secret, Fascination

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• 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

  Dream, Travel, Book

  "Living memories". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• La vida, como insiste la más antigua de las metáforas, es un viaje; y el libro de viajes, en su engañosa simulación de los sobresaltos del viaje, ensaya la propia fragmentación de la vida. Más incluso que la novela, abraza la contingencia de las cosas.

  Jonathan Raban

  Travel, Book, Journey

  Jonathan Raban (1987). “For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987”

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• I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Worst, Novel

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). "The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh", Methuen

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• My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

  Beverly Cleary

  Madre, Padre, Libro

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• Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.

  Phil Cousineau

  Libro, Lectura, Práctica

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• A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Writing

  Interview with Michael Shapiro, www.sfgate.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Novelists

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• Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some are about suffering. There are as many different kinds of travel books as there are novels. People think a travel book is one thing. It's many things.

  Paul Theroux

  Falling In Love, Book, Thinking

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Los buenos libros de viajes son novelas en el fondo.

  Jonathan Raban

  Book, Heart, Novel

  Recalled by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the NewYorkTimes, 26 Jan1987, reviewing Raban's novel Coasting (1986).

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• Los delirios de Don Quijote" es una lectura excelente, mucho mejor que mi próximo libro de viajes, "Caminando hacia atrás por la Toscana".

  Arthur Smith

  Book, Tuscany, Excellent

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• The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Successful, Firsts

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