The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.
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.
What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.
The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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.
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
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