1.
Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.
Jacqueline Susann
2.
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
3.
Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.
Jacqueline Susann
4.
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
5.
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
6.
Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.
Jacqueline Susann
7.
Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.
Jacqueline Susann
8.
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
9.
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.
Jacqueline Susann
10.
Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
Jacqueline Susann
11.
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
12.
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
13.
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
Jacqueline Susann
14.
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
Jacqueline Susann
15.
A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.
Jacqueline Susann
16.
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
17.
The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!
Jacqueline Susann
18.
Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.
Jacqueline Susann
19.
Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
Jacqueline Susann
20.
Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?
Jacqueline Susann
