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"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."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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"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."
People
"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."
Man
"Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about."
Passion
"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."
Money
"I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!"
Favorite
"Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts."
Will
"I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip."
Love
"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."
Change
"I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely."
Family
"My weakness is wearing too much leopard print."
Fashion
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