My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

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.

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive 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.

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.