Colleen McCullough Quotes
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
I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
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.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.
How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
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 is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice
... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.
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
He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.
But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.
Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.
Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
Rain, rain, rain. Like a benediction from some vast inscrutable hand, long withheld, finally given. The blessed, wonderful rain. For rain meant grass, and grass was life.