Colleen Margaretta McCullough AO (married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds. Read full biography of Colleen McCullough →
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.
In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white... →
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... →
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... →
Colleen Margaretta McCullough AO (married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds.