The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.
Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.
