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

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.

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

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.

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

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.

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