Colleen McCullough quotes

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. (Colleen McCullough)
I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me. View quote
Colleen McCullough
Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind. View quote
Colleen McCullough
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be. View quote
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I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens. View quote
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. View quote
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It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice. View quote
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There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. View quote
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My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth. View quote
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... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams. View quote
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..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend. (Colleen McCullough)
I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. View quote
Colleen McCullough
One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. ... Or so says the legend. View quote
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My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow. View quote
Colleen McCullough
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. View quote
Colleen McCullough
There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. Dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. ... Or so says the legend. (Colleen McCullough)