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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "