“Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.”
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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.
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.
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.'
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
