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The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules.

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

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.

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.