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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. "