I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
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My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.
I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.
I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical.
Every part of the country has its story to tell, so I'm always looking for the next place to be.
I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.
Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.