"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

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"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Travel, Nature, Wisdom, Inspirational, Truth

"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Travel, Climate, Hell, Weather

"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Travel, Europe, Imagination, Dream, Lies

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Travel, Cities, World, Freedom, Adventure

"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Travel, Life, Truth, Happiness

"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Travel, Journey, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational

"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Travel, Adventure, Exploration, Discovery

"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Travel, Melancholy, Reflection, Experience

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Travel, Humility, Perspective, World

"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Travel, Traveling

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"But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices."

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"It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job."

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"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

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"I do like to explore evil characters in my books."

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"I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing."

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"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."

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"You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film."

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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

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"But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices."

"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."

"I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it."

"Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck."

"It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job."

"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

"I do like to explore evil characters in my books."

"I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing."

"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."

"You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film."