Top 17 Quotes by Colleen McCullough

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.