“If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.”
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
