Jackie Collins Quotes

You have to do anything you can think of that gets you excited.

To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

You need to write about something that you really know about or you deeply connect with. Don't fake it.

Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't I do them all?

'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'

I never assume success or crave it. I make what I love and then share it with everyone.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

You need fear to create, to live.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

I write about what I know.

I think if people are passionate about something, it could be real estate or biochemistry, and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone's beautiful in that zone.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational leap, which is very good for writing.