“When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.”
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. 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.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
