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I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
Colleen McCullough
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Colleen McCullough
Age: 77 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 1
Died: 2015
Died: January 29
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Wellington
New South Wales
Australia
Colleen Margaretta McCullough
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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.
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... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
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Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
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Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
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..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend
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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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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
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Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.
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What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
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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.
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The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
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How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
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Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
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I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.
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The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.
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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
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It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
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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
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