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

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.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.

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.

Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.