Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.
I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.
I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work.
I tend to write more when I travel.
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.