Jackie Collins
Jackie Collins
Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins OBEwas an English romance novelist. She moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s and spent most of her career there. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on The New York Times bestsellers list. In total, her books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages. Eight of her novels have been adapted for the screen, either as films or television miniseries. She was the younger sister of actress Joan...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 October 1937
CityLondon, England
Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
I should be writing until I drop. I'll be a little old lady of 106. I never see myself stopping what I do because it's my passion.
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
I'm truly blessed, ... I'm going to go to school, and I'm going to really dedicate myself.
I consider everywhere I go research, so you will be reading about the Bahamas in a future novel! That's because I like to take my readers with me!
For a long time this was the best-kept secret in Arizona. It sat here and did nothing except be pretty.
It was so funny to realize that all the cliches about Hollywood were true, ... There was the casting couch. There were these dirty old men who would say, 'Can you lift your skirt up a little higher, darling? We'd like to see your legs. How about dinner tonight?' That's what I started to write about.
Our kids are going to be acting out their multiplication tables and singing out their history lessons,
Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
We want to find out different things about celebrities, what makes them tick, how did they meet their husband, what is it like at home.
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.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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.