Michel Houellebecq Quotes

I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.

I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

I try to get away. It's very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things I've had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

I was born to travel and write verse.

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'

Personally, I'd like to visit every corner of the earth. But I don't know as I'll ever be able to accomplish that.

I like being able to, you know, pack up and leave the country and hop on a plane and go wherever I want and stay wherever and bring my friends with me and bring my family on vacation. That's amazing.

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.