Quotes from Jackie Collins

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

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.

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

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

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.

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

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

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

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.

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.

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

Wake up, old man. He plans more than a cheat. He plans a hit. I know. I can read it in his eyes.

Lennie Golden. Son of crusty old Jack Golden, a stand-up Vegas hack, and the unstoppable Alice – or 'Alice the Swizzle' as his mother was known in her heyday as a 'now you see 'em – now you don't' Las Vegas stripper.

But who listened to mothers when your cock was on fire?

a small town outside of Arizona, Sergei Zukov, a Russian drug czar, questioned a young woman tied to a chair in her own home

I bet you look good naturally." "Not true," she said, shaking her head. "I spend plenty of time at the gym doing all the things that keep me looking good. I practice yoga and Pilâtes, and sometimes I starve myself to squeeze into something stunning." "That's 'cause you're a movie star. You have to.

The picture became clear. One of Dario's pickups had turned on him. "I know someone," Costa said slowly. "You just stay put.

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

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

Shit happens. You need to move on.

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

The truth would set her free. Only then would she be able to get on with her life.

Love's not what makes the world go around.