Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

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.

I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I don't want to call anybody Fred or Jane or Susan, so when three people get into bed together, you don't know who they are.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.