26 Quotes by Sidney Sheldon
- Writing novels is the most exciting.
- Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
- When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
- I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
- What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
- Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
- Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
- I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.
- My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
- The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.
- There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
- Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
- Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
- When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.
- Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
- Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.
- I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
- In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.
- If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
- I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
- I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.
- I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
- I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
- I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.
- I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
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