I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

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.

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

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.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice