I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
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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.
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.
Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.
My goal is to write one book of fiction, and that's all I want to do. It takes so much time, and I don't really have enough time. But I admire writers so much.
Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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