Paul Theroux
In 1975, Paul Theroux published the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar, a work that appears among his writings as a travel writer.
Born Paul Edward Theroux on April 10, 1941, in Medford, he attended Medford High School before studying at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A citizen of the United States who writes in English, Theroux has worked across several roles, including novelist, travel writer, screenwriter, literary critic, and professor. Among his earlier achievements outside of literature, he earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
Theroux was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast. That novel was subsequently adapted as a film in 1986 and later served as the basis for a television series in 2021. Theroux has also received the Patron's Medal.
The television series adapted from The Mosquito Coast began airing in 2021, more than three decades after the 1986 film adaptation of the same novel.
Quotes by Paul Theroux
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The train can reasssure you in awful places -- a far cry from the anxious sweats of doom aeroplanes inspire, or the nauseating gas-sickness of the long-distance bus, or the paralysis that afflicts the car passenger.
There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.
The stars which at midnight looked like a spillway of broken pearls, did not shine at this hour; they were holes of light, like eye squints in black masks.
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.