Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.
The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you're working for them, they want something by a certain time.
One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.