There was some justice in his pain

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

Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.

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

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.

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

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.