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Paul Theroux

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I’ve gone on. I certainly don’t feel I need his approval, although maybe that’s because I’m confident that I’ve got it.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

Although I’m not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

The more you write, the more you’re capable of writing.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

Love doesn’t last.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don’t think that is the case now. And it’s a place where people still kid themselves – you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it’s not going to happen. It’s never going to happen.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

If you’re a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don’t like other people. I’m not like that, I don’t think.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

I can’t predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive – no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer’s life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor – no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial – but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

– Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

– Paul Theroux

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