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
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.
law bird singing
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.
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.
buy shoes walk
YOU DON'T HAVE TO WALK IN A MAN'S SHOES TO KNOW WHERE HE'S BEEN. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS, BUY HIM A NEW PAIR, TO GET HIM TO WHERE HE'S GOING." ()
depth means
It means I don't have much depth of vision," ()
home two different
Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.
pain justice
There was some justice in his pain
art book people
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.
men ties feel-good
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
thinking hands kind
I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.
speech want height
I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
editors potters i-can
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
people horny way
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.
eye laughing golden
Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.