Australian - Author | June 1, 1937 -
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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The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
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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.
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
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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.
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I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.
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I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
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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.
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In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've 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.
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It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
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It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
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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.
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