#writ

But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#confrontational #creative #each #everything #face

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

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. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#birds #either #else #ever #find

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#doubt #i #manage #more #no doubt

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. ↗

— David McCullough

#amateur #because #called #fairly #hand

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. ↗

— David McCullough

#academic #been #could #find #go

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. ↗

— David McCullough

#i #lumber #out #rewriting #trying

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know. ↗

— David McCullough

#find #i #know #need #out

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. ↗

— David McCullough

#book #clear #compelling #hope #i

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. ↗

— David McCullough

#comes #just #keep #point #researching