Top 17 Quotes by Colleen McCullough

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

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.

My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

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.

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

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.

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.

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.