Art & Creativity Quote by Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins frames creativity as instinct, not affectation: “born storyteller” is a declaration of appetite, almost biology. It’s also a quiet rebuttal to the way her work was often treated - as guilty pleasure, as scandal, as somehow less “literary.” If storytelling is innate, then the gatekeepers’ sneer becomes beside the point. She’s not auditioning for approval; she’s claiming her natural habitat.

The second move is even sharper. “Inspiration is all around me” sounds airy until she anchors it in the most unromantic source imaginable: a newspaper article. Collins collapses the distance between “serious” public life and the supposedly frivolous terrain of sex, power, and ambition she chronicled. The subtext: the drama people whisper about at night is the same drama driving headlines by day. She’s telling you not to underestimate the informational value of gossip, glamour, and desire - they’re not distractions from society, they’re engines of it.

There’s craft hiding inside the breeziness. Reading an article and “come up with an idea for a book” isn’t magic; it’s a method: scanning for motive, spotting the pressure points, imagining what the official narrative leaves out. In a culture obsessed with “authenticity,” Collins argues for something older and tougher: attentiveness. The world supplies raw material; the storyteller supplies nerve, selection, and velocity. That’s how you turn the daily feed into myth.