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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."

"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."

"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."

"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."
Explore more quotes by Jackie Collins

"Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books."

"I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing."

"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 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."

"All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie."

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

"I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers."
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