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Paul Theroux

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

Paul Theroux

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Paul Theroux distinguishes himself from writers who focus primarily on travel by emphasizing that his main goal is storytelling, with travel serving as a setting rather than the central theme. He acknowledges Mark Twain's notable contributions to travel literature but sees his own work as using travel to explore deeper narratives about the places he visits.

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