111 Quotes by Colleen McCullough

You just hang onto the thought that every dog has its day, even the bitches.

The feeling of coming home, when she didn’t want to come home any more than she wanted the liability of love.

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.

He had always been her baby, her lovely little boy; though she had watched him change and grow with proprietary pride, she had done so with an image of laughing baby superimposed on his maturing face.

Surprised, she realized that keeping physically busy is the most effective blockade against totally mental activity human beings can erect.

You say you love me, but you have no idea what love is; you’re just mouthing words you’ve memorized because you think they sound good!

All that power held dormant, sleeping, only needing the detonation of a touch to trigger a chaos in which mind was subservient to passion, mind’s will extinguished in body’s will.

Later on after the war was over the women were to find this constantly; the men who had actually been in the thick of battle never opened their mouths about it, refused to join the ex-soldiers’ clubs and leagues, wanted nothing to do with institutions perpetuating the memory of war.

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.