Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

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.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.