Steve Rushin Quotes

There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

The road is the best spot to drive - just anywhere.

I've always wanted to drive cross-country.

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.

After college, I drove across the country twice with friends. It was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. I find it really inspiring seeing the country that way.

When you're on a road trip, anything goes.

The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

Touring is great because I love to travel.

I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.