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,
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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.
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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.
The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.