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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. "

Colleen McCullough

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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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

Colleen McCullough

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

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

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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. "

Colleen McCullough

" 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

" 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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