Quote

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.

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.

Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work.

I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

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

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

I tend to write more when I travel.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.