Jacqueline Susann

“Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”

“I write for women who read me in the goddamn subways on the way to work.”

“I'm not writing for the critics. I'm writing for the public.”

“The only hit that comes out of a Helen Gurley Brown idea is the sound of a book dropping on a carpeted floor.”

“A writer, if he is truly a writer, is always feeling he has betrayed his vision.”

“You can't be a little bit of a lesbian.”

“I don't have any right to be an author. I'm not a good writer.”

“I'd like to be the female Horatio Alger.”

“Valley of the Dolls is not a book about sex and drugs – it's a book about women.”

“I feel that I'm a good storyteller. That's all.”

“Fame is a very strange animal.”

“I'm a commercial writer. I'm not a literary writer.”