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

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

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

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

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

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.