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