Colleen McCullough Quotes

• Belief doesn’t rest on proof or existence…it rests on faith…without faith there is nothing.

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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.

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  Tags in Read, Writer

• 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.

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• I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it’s the kind you read with one hand.

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  Tags in Think, Kind

• In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

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  Tags in Satisfied, Early, Well

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

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  Tags in Speech, Like

• I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.

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  Tags in Political, Things, Australian

• It’s a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

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• It’s a woman’s book but I think the men will read it too.

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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.

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• In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I’ve 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.

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  Tags in Anything, Imagination, Heaven

• 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.

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• She told fortunes for a living. It’s a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960’s.

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  Tags in Great, Women

• 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.

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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.

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  Tags in Good, Husband

• The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

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  Tags in Men, Appreciate

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

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  Tags in Difficult, Manage

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

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  Tags in People, Hell

Colleen McCullough (18)

Birth:	1st June, 1937
Death:	29th January, 2015
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Novelist

About

Colleen Margaretta McCullough was born in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia. She was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds. Before her tertiary education, McCullough earned a living as a teacher, librarian and journalist. In her first year of medical studies at the University of Sydney she suffered dermatitis from surgical soap and was told to abandon her dreams of becoming a medical doctor. Instead, she switched to neuroscience and worked at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.

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