Love Quote by Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins is selling the secret sauce of her swagger: control that doesn’t feel like control. “I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones” reads like a disarming confession, but it’s also a creative alibi. If the villains are loved, then their excesses aren’t moral failures on the page; they’re inevitabilities of desire, ambition, and appetite. Collins built an empire on glamorous transgression, and this line reframes that transgression as intimacy rather than exploitation.

The craft subtext is shrewd. Saying “They tell me what to do” flatters the reader’s favorite myth about writing: the author as medium, not architect. It’s a way of making melodrama feel organic, as if the plot twists and sexual politics arrived on their own, unfiltered. That matters for Collins, who was often dismissed as “just” commercial. She’s quietly insisting on process and seriousness without adopting the pious tone literary culture rewards. The “wild and wonderful trip” is practically a mission statement for her brand: pace, pleasure, danger, and a promise that judgment won’t be the main attraction.

Context sharpens the intent. Collins wrote in and about a celebrity ecosystem that thrives on the friction between public virtue and private vice, especially for women. Loving “even the bad ones” is also a refusal to punish female desire by default. She’s not apologizing for her characters’ mess; she’s treating it as the engine of story. In that sense, the quote is less about inspiration than about permission: to write people as thrilling, compromised, and irresistibly alive.