Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.
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I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.
I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.
The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.
I came from a home where everybody had a book.
When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.
There are so many people who want to be the next person on 'Home and Away,' or they just want to be on the cover of a magazine, and they don't really understand the craft. They're not interested in theatre, they're not interested in the art.
My idea of home is not necessarily a place.
I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.
I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.