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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space. "

" 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'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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "