If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
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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.
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