A Quote by Paul Theroux

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

Paul Theroux

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Paul Theroux
American - Novelist
Born: April 10, 1941

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

Paul Theroux

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

Eve Ensler

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Charles de Lint

It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

Christopher Buckley

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Maya Lin

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

Tony Judt

Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?

Liza Mundy

Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

Karen Joy Fowler

I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories.

Susanna Clarke

Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.

Teresa Mummert

It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by men. We decide in what we will have markets, and we decide how the rules work and how they'll conduct themselves.

John Lanchester

I had a very humane, what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova would probably have called 'vegetarian,' experience of migration. It involved planes and trains - the actual compartments of passenger trains - and not grueling walking and riding on the roofs of trains.