Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing. Robyn Davidson Read Quote
You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. Robyn Davidson Read Quote
I think people are frightened by different things, so I don’t see myself as particularly courageous. Robyn Davidson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Robyn Davidson Read Quote
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. Robyn Davidson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
