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

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

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

" During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve. "

" You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back. "

" 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. "

" My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic. "

" Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.' "

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

" Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in. "

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

" 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. "