If you have ever dreamed of being a travel writer, here are some helpful tips from the some of the world’s best.
Cheryl Strayed
Author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
‘Write a lot and don’t be in a hurry to publish. Find the work that moves you the most deeply and read it over and over again. Be brave and write what is true for you. Write what you think. Write about what confuses you and compels you. Write what scares you. Writing is risk and revelation.’
Bill Bryson
Author of Notes From a Small Island
“I think the Main thing is to just write. There are an awful lot of people that just talk about a book they are going to write, but they never get around to writing it. I think that unless you just get on with the writing, there’s no way to tell whether you’re a good writer or not.”
Paul Theroux
Author of The Great Railway Bazaar
‘Leave out boring things. People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I’m not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don’t want to hear about it.’
Ernest Hemmingway
Author of Death in the Afternoon
‘All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.’
Elizabeth Gilbert
Author of Eat, Pray, Love
‘Live a curious life. You have to accept that fear will accompany any project. If you want to write you don’t need approval from others to pursue your artistic endeavour.’
Rolf Potts
Author of Vagabonding
‘Travel a lot. Write a lot. Read a lot. Don’t quit your day job.’
Frances Mayes
Author of Under a Tuscan Sun
‘Write what you want, not what you think will sell, write to discover and tell yourself something that you want to hear.’
Bruce Chatwin
Author of In Patagonia
‘The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.’
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