Jacqueline Susann quotes:

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  • When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

  • The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!

  • The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

  • As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

  • I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

  • Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

  • Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

  • As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

  • People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.

  • A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

  • Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

  • I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

  • Do not measure the number of tragedies you suffer, quantify the success derived from the.

  • Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

  • Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

  • Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

  • Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given -- it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.

  • Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

  • I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature"¦literature should be left to essayists.

  • A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you.

  • Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.

  • Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

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