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

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

You become a great writer by writing.

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

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 become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

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.

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

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

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.