Travel Writing Quotes
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Travel Writing Quotes & Sayings
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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
— Pam Houston
a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller
— Sam Miller
Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.
— Gina Greenlee
I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn't know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?
— Gina Greenlee
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything you need to know to enjoy your trip to Italy is in my Conversational Italian for Travelers books!
— Kathryn Occhipinti
You have to know where you are going to reach your destination.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every traveler should make their own observation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place - and still be home in time to have dinner.
— Mary Pope Osborne
Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.
— Jan Morris
The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats
— Vicki Alayne Bradley
There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot.
— Edwin Mullins
Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.
— Nicolas Bouvier
It is far easier to travel than to write about it.
— David Livingstone
A dog...is a bond between strangers.
— John Steinbeck
I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.
— Brett Dennen
On every travel, we saw beautiful landscapes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Blood-coloured bottlebrush trees and scarlet hibiscus looked too bright for this devastated world.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth
That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.
— Christopher Isherwood
too young to live, too old to die
— Jeffrey Rasley
The River Mogami has drowned
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho
If you want it badly enough, it's yours.
— Gina Greenlee
The alchemy of diamonds from the rough
is to mine every moment. — Gina Greenlee
is to mine every moment. — Gina Greenlee
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
— Evelyn Waugh
You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last! — Avijeet Das
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last! — Avijeet Das
Those who walk the talk get the work.
— Gina Greenlee
The first step in becoming a global citizen is stripping away the preconceptions of how things should be in order to see things for what they are.
— Colleen Mariotti
A letter allows us to travel through time.
— Fennel Hudson
Endings are the embryos of new beginnings.
— Gina Greenlee
You'd be surprised who will back down when you speak up.
— Gina Greenlee
Look beyond now.The road ahead offers a good voyage.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.
— Gina Greenlee
This is a divine path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church ...
— Henry James
Every body has a unique path to travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Diving in IS testing the water.
— Gina Greenlee
Being a maverick traveller, one would like to place oneself in the place of a local; just listen without judgement.
— Mary Jane Walker
If "Been there, done that" isn't your mantra,then make haste down your "bucket list.
— Gina Greenlee
There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.
— Gerry Abbey
I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
— Tahir Shah
With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.
— James A. Michener
A Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth
Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?
— Jessica-Lynn Barbour
Keep taking new paths to expand your horizon.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Read. Learn. Write. Travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.
— Eugene Linden
Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.
— Alfred Zappala
At chaos' core lies the invitation.
— Gina Greenlee
When you focus on the journey, you will be blessed with guardian angels to direct your path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have to taste a culture to understand it.
— Deborah Cater
New insights from being present are a gift.
— Gina Greenlee
Great places, great memories.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish
— Gina Greenlee
Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.
— Gina Greenlee
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
— Judy Blume
If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.
— Gina Greenlee
I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Learning voyage, the greatest adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.
— Gina Greenlee
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.
— Tim Butcher
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ...
— Evelyn Waugh
It feels like flying and landing to all the continents of the world with the use of my imaginary paper that can floats in the air.
— Alexina Benavidez
Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.
— Gina Greenlee
A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.
— Bear Grylls
Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret.
— Gina Greenlee
When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.
— Kathryn Joyce
My life on earth is personal journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.
— Michael Scott
An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.
— Gina Greenlee
The adventures of a lifetime begin with "Yes.
— Gina Greenlee
Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.
— Leigh Ann Henion
Sometimes we have to break down to break through.
— Gina Greenlee
Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!
— Mark Twain
Sometimes it is just about taking the first step, only then can greatness find us.
— Colleen Mariotti
One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.
— John Gimlette
If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!
— Laurence Bradbury
Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!
— Gerry Abbey
May you find a new path in your travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whether by plane, bus or carpet,
own the magic in your ride. — Gina Greenlee
own the magic in your ride. — Gina Greenlee
Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.
— Gina Greenlee
Be courageous: be still.
— Gina Greenlee
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
I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.
— John Gimlette
I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.
— Josh Radnor