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"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."
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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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 dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice."

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

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

"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."
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