Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough
Colleen Margaretta McCullough AOwas an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 June 1937
CountryAustralia
appreciate forty lovely men year
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more" ()
experience journey lived personal time
I lived in the US for donkeys' years so it has been a journey back in time for me. If you have had personal experience of something, it is always more authentic." ()
ahead fun patterns speech
They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time." ()
great refuse repeat
They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act." ()
depth means
It means I don't have much depth of vision," ()
birthday appreciation women
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
breathing space giving
That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
women reading home
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
determination memories healing
And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
belief proof existence
Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
law bird singing
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.
speech want height
I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
eye laughing golden
Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.
editors potters i-can
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.