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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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It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
Colleen McCullough
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I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
Colleen McCullough
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It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
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.
Colleen McCullough
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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.
Colleen McCullough
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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.
Colleen McCullough
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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
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The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough
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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
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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
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I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.
Colleen McCullough
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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.
Colleen McCullough
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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.
Colleen McCullough
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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
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