Colleen McCullough

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#ralph #faith

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#forty #men #age

For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#love

But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#love

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#age

But not we men. We weren't fit to be told. For so you women think, and hug your mysteries, getting your backs on us for the slight God did in not creating you in His image. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#men

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

#diary #draft #early #into #me

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

— Colleen McCullough

#i #know #like #look #physique

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. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#am #because #chinese #explore #further

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

#back #between #bit #characters #counted