Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

As time goes by I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

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.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.