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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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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

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"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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