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As you get older, you do just get tired.
I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.
Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.
London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!
I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.
Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.
There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.
Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.
Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.
I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.
The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.
These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.
Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes
My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.
I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.
I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman.
My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.
You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.
The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.
If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.
After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.
I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.
You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.
Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.
I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.
Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.
It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring
Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.
The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.
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 try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.
Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.
I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.
And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them
Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.
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.
You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.
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.
The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.
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.
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 desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.
I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.
I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.
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.
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 genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.