Quotes from Colleen McCullough

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

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.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

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.

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.

The lovely thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25 year old men more.