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"I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer."
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"Wondering leads to writing."
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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
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"Every great writer is a great reader."
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"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
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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
"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
"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."
Policy
"I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand."
Love
"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage."
Doubt
"There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be."
People
"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
"It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too."
Man
"In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary."
Writing
"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
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