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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.

Quote by Jackie Collins about sex, talking, woman, man, people

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.

Quote by Jackie Collins about love, books, writing, people

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Quote by Jackie Collins about truth, real estate, people

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.

Quote by Jackie Collins about dream, americans, mind, real estate, things, contentment

My books are different because I don't follow a certain formula. I simply write about subjects that fascinate me.

Quote by Jackie Collins about books

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

Quote by Jackie Collins about character

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about writing, people

As I write, of course, Mussolini is an evil memory. But in 1933 he was a towering figure who was supposed to have discovered something worth study and imitation by all world artificers everywhere.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about memory, world

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

Quote by Peter Fonda about actors, writers, knowledge, work

It can go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about end

They're not journalists, they're leeches; they're parasites. They never write anything that is true. I guess they enjoy hurting other people. Don't they think about people's children?

Quote by Melanie Griffith about journalism, children, people

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

Quote by Larry Hagman about commerce

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about punishment, man

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about tragedy, hell, use, contentment

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about god, contentment

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about affair, contentment

Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about invention, events, writers

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about rocks, rules

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about writing, mind