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"It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"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."
"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 early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary."
"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."
"It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice."
"My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth."
"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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