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"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
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"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
"And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble."
"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."
"You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that's the same as going there."
"To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead."
"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
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"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
"Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book."
"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
"So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries."
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
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