"In my rucksack I took Mandelstam's Journey to Armenia and Hemingway's In Our Time. Six months later I came back with the bones of a book that, this time, did get published. While stringing its sentences together, I thought that telling stories was the only conceivable occupation for a superfluous person such as myself."
Bruce Chatwin in 1983, on the genesis of In Patagonia.
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