My weakness is wearing too much leopard print. Jackie Collins More Quotes by Jackie Collins More Quotes From Jackie Collins 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. Jackie Collins falling-in-love character travel Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. Jackie Collins falling-for-you falling-in-love doe Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course. Jackie Collins falling-in-love crazy heart 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. Jackie Collins dream want thinking 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. Jackie Collins talking book years I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do. Jackie Collins color writing people If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! Jackie Collins procrastination writing talking Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that. Jackie Collins style writing thinking Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about. Jackie Collins passion want writing I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom. Jackie Collins boredom doe long A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk. Jackie Collins secret writing people 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. Jackie Collins vanity writing thinking Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that. Jackie Collins whole-life life-is forget People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together. Jackie Collins together people thinking Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. Jackie Collins agents aquariums essentials 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. Jackie Collins los-angeles teenager london I wake up in the morning and I still have a passion for what I do, and I'll be doing it when I'm 105, I'll be scribbling away. If it was 100 years ago I'd be sitting by the campfire, saying, "Have I got a story to tell you." Jackie Collins passion morning years 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. Jackie Collins creating giving character 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. Jackie Collins finals writing book I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely. Jackie Collins lovely journey travel
