Literary Birthday – 20 August – Jacqueline Susann
Jacqueline Susann was born on 20 August 1918 and died on 21 September 1974.
Jacqueline Susann Quotes
- Never judge anyone by another’s opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.
- I’ve got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!
- I don’t think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.
- 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. The second draft is on yellow paper, that’s when I work on characterisations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that’s where I cut, cut, cut.
- I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I’d been thinking about it a long time.
- 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.
- Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don’t choose to do. Keep your identity.
Jacqueline Susann was an American actress and novelist. Her novel Valley of the Dolls is one of the bestselling books in publishing history. With her two subsequent works, The Love Machine, and Once Is Not Enough, Susann became the first author to have three novels top The New York Times Best Seller list consecutively. Even after publishing her famous novels, Susann said Every Night, Josephine! was the favourite of her own books. Jacqueline Susann is acknowledged to be the first ‘brand-name’ novelist, who sold books independent of critical attention.
Source for Image: Photo by ‘Bruno of Hollywood’, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
by Amanda Patterson
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