If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
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.
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'