I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
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.
More modern poetry is written than read.
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
I've always liked new writing.
As far as I can see, the best writers in the last two hundred years have been Whitman, Rilke, Proust, Kafka. Their best works: 'Leaves of Grass - 1855;' 'Duino Elegies;' 'The Captive & The Fugitive;' 'The Castle.'
The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.