The Best American Travel Writing 2019 Quotes

“That perhaps I could walk my way to reclaiming enough of an illusion of safety to survive the next four years in this country.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2019

“There’s a saying in Haiti: A rich man travels, a poor man leaves.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2019

“An honest, engaging traveler inspires us to make our own journeys and helps us to see and understand new (to us) places. Good travel writing is about human connection.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2019

“The genre is called travel writing for a reason: it involves a traveler. Mostly, the traveler in good travel writing is not a local and doesn’t pretend to be.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2019

“There’s a lot of bad travel writing. And bad travel writing can be self-indulgent, ill-informed, overwrought with purple prose, and lacking context. Worse, it can be full of prejudice and stereotypes, and historically was an instrument of colonialism and propaganda. But the best travel writing is none of these.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2019

“Once you’re several generations removed from your cultural heritage, how much connection is truly possible? Bits and pieces might be integrated into home life—a cultural event here, some ethnic food there—but for the most part the upbringing is American.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2019

“Something in djet time is finished but not past; it exists forever in the present.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2019