Jacqueline Susann Quotes

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a few stories to stall before starting this other book that I wanted to write - or thought I wanted to write: I still haven't written it.

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.