Colleen McCullough Quotes
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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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There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.
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There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
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If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
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I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
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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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Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
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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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Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind.
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I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
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Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.
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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.
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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.
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When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.
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They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act.
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They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time.
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Duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.
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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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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 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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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.
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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.
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Forty-four years is about as close to modern life as I want to go because I know now, from where I am, what was important about 1960 in social terms.
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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.