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Robyn Davidson Quotes

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.

– Robyn Davidson

There are worse things than being called ‘the camel lady,’ I suppose.

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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.

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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.

– Robyn Davidson

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that’s filed everywhere else except under travel.

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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.

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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

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

– Robyn Davidson

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.

– Robyn Davidson

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.

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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.

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.

– Robyn Davidson

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.

– Robyn Davidson

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.

– Robyn Davidson

As you get older, you do just get tired.

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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

– Robyn Davidson

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