Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Colin Thubron

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British novelist Colin Thubron.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, FRAS is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a CBE in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, between 2009 and 2017, was President of the Royal Society of Literature.

British - Novelist | Born: June 14, 1939

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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

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

Colin Thubron

Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.

Colin Thubron

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

Colin Thubron

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

Colin Thubron

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Colin Thubron

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