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Her first novel, "Valley of the Dolls", was the top selling novel of 1966. It has sold over ten million copies to date.

Godmother of Phoebe Cates.

Her only child, a son named Guy, was diagnosed as severely autistic and was institutionalized most of his life

Was so disappointed by the movie Valley of the Dolls (1967), an adaptation of her best-selling book of the same name, that she referred to it as a "piece of shit".

She was unflatteringly described by Truman Capote as looking "like a truck driver in drag".

[when told not to be upset upon news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963] What do you mean don't be upset? My tour's been canceled!

Way back then, they didn't think [William Shakespeare] was a good writer. He was the soap opera king of his day.

When W. Somerset Maugham wrote a book everyone would say, "Oh, God, who is Willie writing about now?" When Gustave Flaubert wrote "Emma Bovary", twenty women said they were Emma. I start writing with a theme in my mind. Then I start asking, what kind of a personality? And because I have a good ear, I unconsciously pick up certain people. But that doesn't mean those people have led that life. Going back to Shakespeare's time, there was a Hamlet, but not such as he wrote it.

Acting is glamor, but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.