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Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

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You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

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People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

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It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

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When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

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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.

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A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 10th, 1941

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