Latest John Gimlette Quotes from Interviews

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• I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling of remoteness at all, ever. And that's reflected in the way our media works, and so on.

  John Gimlette

  Media, Feelings, Way

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I often think I would like to come even closer to home and write about somewhere like Wales, for example - which we in England tend to be a little snooty about. That's where the coal comes from and that sort of thing.

  John Gimlette

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

  John Gimlette

  Community, Radio, Way

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote - I'm thinking of Newfoundland - feel very connected though the radio.

  John Gimlette

  Successful, Thinking, America

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• This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.

  John Gimlette

  Frustration, Able, West

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

  John Gimlette

  Phones, Views, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting at each other in an argument, violence is not going to follow. That would be just so far removed.

  John Gimlette

  Country, People, Morocco

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• We don't really listen to what the other person is saying. We have gotten used to information being in such a concentrated form all the time, and so continuously, that conversation somehow seems inadequate for a lot of people, and therefore they can't join in it. You notice how many people can't argue anymore - without getting very upset.

  John Gimlette

  People, Upset, Information

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised.

  John Gimlette

  Talking, Civilization, Voice

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We are constantly surprised by this noise and television. It means that's what we are going to get, because we always get everything eventually.

  John Gimlette

  Mean, Boston, Different

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that.

  John Gimlette

  Wish, Noise, Portugal

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

  John Gimlette

  Book, Reading, Given

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Giving, Lists

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• I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.

  John Gimlette

  Talking, People, Four

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out.

  John Gimlette

  Thinking, Fire, Iraq

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, People, Upset

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, People, Age

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was trying to do, which was just entertain. Which he does very successfully, though the humor is almost dated now.

  John Gimlette

  Trying, Doe, Half

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• One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Humility, Personality

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

  John Gimlette

  Here And There, Sticks, Dip

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• I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Fiction, Stage

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

• I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.

  John Gimlette

  Strong, Writing, Feel Better

  Source: www.identitytheory.com