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" The Trans-Siberian Express is like a cruise across an oceanic landscape. I've done it three times. "

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" 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. "

" My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing. "

" 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. "

" There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody, and then the place that's never been written about. "

" The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely. "

" If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing. "

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

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

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

" I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. "

" 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. "

" What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. "

" Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. "

" The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel. "

" I think I understand passion. Love is something else. "

" The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth. "

" The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume. "

" Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. "

" My greatest inspiration is memory. "

" Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter. "

" Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. "

" Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with. "

" I am happy being what I am. "

" I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. "

" Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. "

" You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are. "

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

" Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. "

" 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.' "

" A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see. "