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

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"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned-in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?"

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"Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?"

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"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."

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"The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers."

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"If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!"

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"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

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"Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things."

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"Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything."

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Explore more quotes by 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

"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

"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

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

Doubt

"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."

Writing

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

Humor

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

Character

"It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too."

Man

"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."

Thought

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

People