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

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

" 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 own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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