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

Jackie Collins

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Jackie Collins
Age: 77 †
Born: 1937
Born: October 4
Died: 2015
Died: September 19
Actor
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Hampstead Village
Jacqueline Jill Collins
Storyteller
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Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
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You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.
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My biggest critics have never read me.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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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.
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A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
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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.
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Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.
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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.
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My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
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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.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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I try not to bore my readers.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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As soon as I reach my destination I have a cup of tea, something to eat and then sleep for about 13 hours. I make that an absolute rule and I always feel fresh afterwards and never have jet lag.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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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.
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Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that.
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I like to design my clothes I design my jewelry, yeah. It's fun.
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