Colleen McCullough Quotes - Page 2

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

There was some justice in his pain

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.