When there's writing that you really trust it's very freeing as an artist.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history which has not been discovered before.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music either with my guitar or on my computer.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton but it's the wrong century.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.