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"I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens."
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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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"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."
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"We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts."
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"You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting."
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"My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet-that's not a problem. The problem is that I just can't live anywhere on the planet."
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"Mystery is a commodity for society that willing to buy it."
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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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"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
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"How do i do this?"
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"Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour."
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"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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"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."
Imagination
"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."
Man
"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
"My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth."
Humor
"There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be."
People
"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 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
"In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary."
Writing
"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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