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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Robyn Davidson

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

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

" 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. "

" I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day. "

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

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

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

" By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Robyn Davidson

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" 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. "

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