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

"Everywhere, I have travel to, I felt loved."

"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."

"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!"
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"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."

"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."

"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."

"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."

"Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one."

"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."

"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
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