Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough
Colleen Margaretta McCullough AOwas an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 June 1937
CountryAustralia
mean class 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.
writing chinese want
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.
belief proof existence
Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
dream space problem
... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
men want knows
...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.
hate love-and-hate kind
Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind
stills presses knows
When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.
imagination bird heaven
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.
character voice giving
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice
believe party white
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.
determination memories healing
And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
women reading home
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
fun women
It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
sleep blessing echoes
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?