101 Quotes by Robyn Davidson

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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