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.
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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.
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
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.
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.
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.
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work.