Novelist Quotes and aphorisms about desert E. M. Forster Nadine Gordimer Naguib Mahfouz Rachel Field Vanna Bonta Antoine de Saint-Exupery Sue Townsend ,, I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water... Israel Zangwill Peter V. Brett ,, I think each book sort of finds its own theme as it goes on. 'Warded Man' was fear. 'Desert Spear' ... Joyce Carol Oates