Jackie Collins Quotes

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• I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

  Jackie Collins

  Falling In Love, Travel, Character

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• My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

  Jackie Collins

  Weakness, Leopards, Too Much

  The Authors Speak Interview, jackiecollins.com. March 8, 2011.

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• If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, Procrastination, Talking

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• Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

  Jackie Collins

  Falling In Love, Falling For You, Doe

  Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

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• If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

  Jackie Collins

  Dream, Thinking, Want

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• Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that.

  Jackie Collins

  Life Is, Forget, Whole Life

  Jackie Collins (2009). “Lethal Seduction”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

  Jackie Collins

  Passion, Writing, Want

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• Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, Thinking, Style

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• Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.

  Jackie Collins

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Heart

  Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

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• If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Talking, Years

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 17, 2014.

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• The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.

  Jackie Collins

  Funny, Witty, Book

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• I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, Color, People

  "Writer Jackie Collins". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 17, 2014.

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• A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, People, Secret

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• Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

  Jackie Collins

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

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• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Writing, Finals

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• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, Thinking, Vanity

  "That storybook career isn't fiction" by Larry Keller, www.cnn.com. October 20, 2000.

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• Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.

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  Cheater, Men, People

  Jackie Collins (2011). “MARRIED LOVERS”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.

  Jackie Collins

  Teenager, London, Los Angeles

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• I wake up in the morning and I still have a passion for what I do, and I'll be doing it when I'm 105, I'll be scribbling away. If it was 100 years ago I'd be sitting by the campfire, saying, "Have I got a story to tell you."

  Jackie Collins

  Morning, Passion, Years

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 17, 2014.

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• I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

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  Book, Finishing, Males

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• Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

  Jackie Collins

  Aquariums, Essentials, Agents

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• I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

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  Dream, Real, Writing

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• I try not to bore my readers.

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  Trying, Reader, Bores

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• There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.

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  Writing, Numbers, Different

  "Writer Jackie Collins". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 17, 2014.

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• My biggest critics have never read me.

  Jackie Collins

  Critics

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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