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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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