Colleen McCullough quotes

Colleen McCullough was an Australian author, best known for her bestselling novel "The Thorn Birds." Her works spanned historical fiction, romance, and medical drama, earning her international acclaim. She captivated readers worldwide with her vivid storytelling and memorable characters. Here are 21 of her quotes:

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. (Colleen McCullough)

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

Colleen McCullough

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind.

Colleen McCullough

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

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

Colleen McCullough

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

Colleen McCullough

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

Colleen McCullough

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

Colleen McCullough

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

Colleen McCullough

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

Colleen McCullough

..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend. (Colleen McCullough)

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

Colleen McCullough

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.

Colleen McCullough

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

Colleen McCullough

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.

Colleen McCullough

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.

Colleen McCullough

There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth.

Colleen McCullough

One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. ... Or so says the legend.

Colleen McCullough

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.

Colleen McCullough

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.

Colleen McCullough

There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. Dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. ... Or so says the legend. (Colleen McCullough)

Colleen McCullough

Occupation: Australian Author
Born: June 1, 1937
Died: January 29, 2015
Quotes count: 21
Wikipedia: Colleen McCullough

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