“Unlike most travel writers, he [Babur] is honest.”
“Honestly,” he says, “I judge writers on how they write queries. If you’re a good writer, you’re a good writer.” And if not, then not.”
“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”
“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.”
“Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one”
“He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous”