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Colleen McCullough

"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."

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Donna Grant

"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

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Donna Grant

"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."

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Donna Grant

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

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Donna Grant

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

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Donna Grant

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

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Donna Grant

"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."

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Donna Grant

"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."

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Donna Grant

"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."

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Donna Grant

"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."

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Donna Grant

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

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

Character

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Colleen McCullough
"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."

Will

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Colleen McCullough
"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."

Life

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Colleen McCullough
"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."

Man

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

Curiosity

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

People

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Colleen McCullough
"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."

Question

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

Writing

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

Humor

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

Doubt

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