107 Quotes by Jackie Collins

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.

I try not to bore my readers.

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I don't want to call anybody Fred or Jane or Susan, so when three people get into bed together, you don't know who they are.

My biggest critics have never read me.

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.

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

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.