Robert Young Pelton on the Writing Life

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 12.02.05 | 1:15 PM ET

Rolf Potts has posted an interview with the man of many titles, including National Geographic Adventure columnist, filmmaker and book author. “I…wish I was as funny and professional as Tim Cahill, as mainstream popular as Bill Bryson and as literary as Paul Theroux,” Pelton told Potts. “But honestly, I just do my thing and if people dig it that’s good. If they don’t—well, as one of my favorite irate fan letters said: ‘I hated your book so much I am never going to check it out from the library again.’”