You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel I would still write.

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

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west we can say the same lines.

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says but to go off with him and travel in his company.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.