Art & Creativity Quote by Jacqueline Susann

Impatience hides inside Susann's plainspoken line: the book existed as pressure before it existed as pages. "I wanted to write it long before" isn’t just a timeline; it’s a claim of destiny, a way of telling you that the work arrived from lived fixation rather than market calculation. She doubles down with that second sentence - "I'd been thinking about it a long time" - which functions like an alibi and a boast at once: alibi, because it wards off the suspicion that a glamorous, high-selling novelist is simply packaging trend; boast, because it frames the project as inevitable, incubated, earned.

The title she references, Every Night, Josephine!, matters here. It’s intimate and theatrical, the kind of phrase that sounds like a whispered refrain and a marquee at the same time. Susann was a writer who understood appetite - for romance, for notoriety, for melodrama with teeth. This line signals how she manufactured that appetite in herself first, letting an idea simmer until it had the heat to pull readers in.

There’s also a gendered subtext: women writers, especially those working in mass entertainment, are routinely treated as lucky, lightweight, or accidental. Susann insists on duration and intention. She’s arguing that the so-called "commercial" book is still an act of long attention - not a guilty pleasure dashed off, but a story that demanded its turn on stage.