Jacqueline Susann
Jacqueline Susann
Jacqueline Susannwas an American author. Her first novel Valley of the Dolls is one of the best selling books of all time. Its success was fueled by an innovative worldwide promotional tour conceived by Susann and her husband, press agent Irving Mansfield. Susann's follow-up bestsellers, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough, made Susann the first author in history to have three #1 consecutive titles on The New York Times Best Seller List...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 August 1918
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
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 sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.
Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.
Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?
A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.
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.
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.
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!
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.
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.