Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968 I started to think write and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance I never write when I'm traveling because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you I am just amazed by that.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it and has a hard time and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

I was born to travel and write verse.

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.

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

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.