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

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" 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. "

" Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj. "

" I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity. "

" I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. "

" 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. "

" I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. "

" It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from. "

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

" By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves. "

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

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

" You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them. "

" Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing. "

" You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world. "

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

" I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy. "

" 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. "

" The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. "

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