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

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

" 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. "

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

" As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire. "

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

" I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect. "

" 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. "

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

" Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today. "

" Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of. "

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

" 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. "