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

— Tea Obreht

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Rick Riordan

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

— Anthony Doerr

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

— Ernest Hemingway

Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.

— Sabrina Lloyd

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

— Steven Heighton

I tend to write more when I travel.

— Jaime Winstone

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

✗Opposing Perspectives

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.

— Junot Diaz

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

— Tim Cahill