Colleen McCullough Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Colleen McCullough

  Character, Two, Research

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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.

  Colleen McCullough

  Art, Women, Reading

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

  Colleen McCullough

  Pain, Cost, Legends

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.7, Head of Zeus

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

  Colleen McCullough

  Stills, Knows, Chests

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

  Colleen McCullough

  Age, Ominous, Phenomenon

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.72, Head of Zeus

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

  Colleen McCullough

  Art, Fun, Women

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

  Colleen McCullough

  Men, Want, Knows

  Colleen McCullough (1999). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

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

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  Looks, Speech, Want

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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.

  Colleen McCullough

  Imagination, Bird, Heaven

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• There was some justice in his pain

  Colleen McCullough

  Pain, Justice

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.365, Head of Zeus

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• Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

  Colleen McCullough

  Men, Blind

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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

  Colleen McCullough

  Men, Ties, Feel Good

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.276, Head of Zeus

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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.

  Colleen McCullough

  Home, Two, Twelve

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.507, Head of Zeus

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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.

  Colleen McCullough

  Party, Believe, White

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

  Colleen McCullough

  Writing, Doubt, Difficult

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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.

  Colleen McCullough

  Writing, Chinese, Want

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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.

  Colleen McCullough

  People, Horny, Way

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