Colleen McCullough Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

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

…she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren’t sure what went on inside.

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

We’re working-class people, which means we don’t get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.