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I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.

If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

I've always wanted to write an airport book.

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.