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
song agony bird
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
character teeth bits
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
australia book fortunes fun great life wacky women
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.
australian deal federation months next policy stopped white
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." ()
men
It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
clicked draft
In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
great refuse repeat
They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act." ()
ahead fun patterns speech
They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time." ()
best
It is one of the biggest, best sellers of all time," ()
character necessary swear unless words
I will never use swear words unless they're necessary and unless I feel that is what the character would have said in those circumstances." ()
close life modern social
Forty-four years is about as close to modern life as I want to go because I know now, from where I am, what was important about 1960 in social terms." ()
experience journey lived personal time
I lived in the US for donkeys' years so it has been a journey back in time for me. If you have had personal experience of something, it is always more authentic." ()
appreciate forty lovely men year
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more" ()