Jacqueline Susann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#People #Judging #Different
When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Eye #Climbing #Steps
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literatureâ€¦literature should be left to essayists.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Thinking #Novelists #Literature
Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.
-- Jacqueline Susann
Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?
-- Jacqueline Susann

#People #Giving #Hearing
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Writing #Way
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.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Motivation #Cutting #Blue
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.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Book #Numbers #People
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Writing #Night #Thinking
The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Warhol #Remembered
Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Numbers #Tragedy
Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Identity #Shows
Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given -- it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Love Is #Want #Pity
Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Motivational #Hard Work #Writing
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.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Memories #Years #People
I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Wind #Library #Milk
A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Running #Men #Long
Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Identity #Shame
Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Want #Minutes
Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Hands #Want #Shakes

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