I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

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.

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