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Love doesn't last.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

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Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval,...

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

My greatest inspiration is memory.

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.

The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.

I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something.

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car,...

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