A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?
If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.
I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to be back in France and Germany, and I want people to enjoy these books for the writing and not because they feel they can laugh - some will laugh - at these eccentric places, that's not what I intend.
I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.
I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in my books at the end of the day you come across with the impression that I really admire both of these places.
It never stops me from saying what I want to say about Ethiopia, the fact that a tour company is paid for me to go there. Book reviewers don't pay for the books they review.
I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because I fear writing the same book all over again. That's why I am taking a break and doing something different this time.
I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it.
I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.
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