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" After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight. "

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" If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. "

" There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose. "

" Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore. "

" The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process. "

" I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous. "

" Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility. "

" I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film. "

" At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. "

" London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters! "

" The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. "

" The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop. "

" My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing. "

" People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people. "

" I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career. "

" The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day. "

" The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment. "

" I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do. "

" I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space. "

" The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city. "

" That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world. "

" When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money. "

" Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it. "

" You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. "

" As you get older, you do just get tired. "

" My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string. "

" The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing. "

" Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos. "

" That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces. "

" I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life. "