For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.
("The Thorn Birds")
More Quotes from Colleen McCullough:
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.Colleen McCullough
My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.
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.
Colleen McCullough
Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention
Colleen McCullough
In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
Colleen McCullough
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough
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