#read

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

— Colleen McCullough

#hand #i #i think #kind #love

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 it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#birds #either #else #ever #find

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#i #i think #men #read #think

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#doubt #i #manage #more #no doubt

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. ↗

— David McCullough

#book #distractions #down #good #how

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. ↗

— David McCullough

#book #clear #compelling #hope #i

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

#college #courses #english #go #had

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#big #different #diverse #downtown #fascinating

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. ↗

— Will McDonough

#department #editor #first #gave #globe

We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control. ↗

— Callum McDougall

#aware #bodies #brought #caused #continue