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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.

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

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

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

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

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

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.

I tend to write more when I travel.