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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.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

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A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

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

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...

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.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out...

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile...

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.

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves...

I am happy being what I am.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

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