“The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.”
Paul Theroux
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
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