Australian - Writer | September 6, 1950 -
These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.
Robyn Davidson
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The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.
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My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.
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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.
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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.
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You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.
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The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.
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Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.
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I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.
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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.
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