“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.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
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.
