Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
Let's get the hell outta here, doll.
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.
When I write I do five drafts. The first is on inexpensive white paper. I don't try for style, I just spill it all out.
Jackie spent 7 to 8 hours a day working on the plots of her books. She used a blackboard and color co-ordinated chalks to keep track of where her book was heading.
Soap writer Robert Soderbergh has cited Jackie as being the basis for the character Felicia Gallant on the soap opera Another World.
Jackie refused to talk about her illness with the public.
When her books were coming out, Jackie would rise at dawn to take coffee and doughnuts to the truck drivers who were delivering her books. She and Irving would also drive around the country to meet sales clerks at the bookstores. Jackie would keep track of everyone's birthdays, their kids' names, and their pets, so she could talk to them more personally. Jackie's shrewdness ensured her book would be prominently displayed and enthusiastically recommended by booksellers.
Jackie spent 7 to 8 hours a day working on the plots of her books. She used a blackboard and color co-ordinated chalks to keep track of where her book was heading.
Jackie was portrayed by Bette Midler in the 2000 movie "Isn't She Great."
Jackie was so disappointed by the 1967 movie Valley of the Dolls, an adaption of her best-selling book of the same name, she referred to the movie as a "piece of s**t."
Jackie's measurements were 34-27-35.
Jackie was born at 7:25pm EST.
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