Art & Creativity Quote by Jackie Collins

Paris Hilton enters Jackie Collins's universe not as a person, but as a product that finally arrived on time. The opening question is a sly piece of gatekeeping: where was this ready-made scandal, this walking brand extension, when a novelist of glossy excess could have cashed in sooner? Collins frames Hilton as cultural inventory, a lucrative archetype that the moment has delivered to her desk.

The key word is "character". It's both compliment and deflation. Collins isn't praising Hilton's inner life; she's praising her legibility. Hilton reads like fiction because her public image is already plotted: wealth as personality, notoriety as career, vulnerability carefully staged behind sunglasses. That makes her "fabulous" to write about in the original, Collins sense of fabulous: extravagant, scandalous, bordering on unbelievable, yet totally consumable.

Subtextually, Collins is tipping her hand about what celebrity means in the tabloid age. Paris isn't famous for doing something; she's famous as a narrative engine, a template that churns out scenes. Collins, a novelist who built an empire on sex, money, and reputation management, recognizes the symmetry. Hilton is the newer, more efficient version of the same system Collins has been dramatizing for decades: power performed as spectacle, intimacy repackaged as gossip, authenticity treated as optional.

There's also a quiet competitiveness here. Collins isn't scandalized; she's amused and opportunistic. The line doubles as a wry industry note: pop culture keeps generating protagonists, and the smartest storytellers know when to pounce.