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"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."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship."

"I don't like him. He makes me laugh. It'll wrinkle my face."

"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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