When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it’s yours. Sidney Sheldon Read Quote
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. Sidney Sheldon Read Quote
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books. Sidney Sheldon Read Quote
Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that. Sidney Sheldon Read Quote
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. Sidney Sheldon Read Quote
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. Sidney Sheldon Read Quote
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. Sidney Sheldon Read Quote
I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I’ve been there to personally research it. Sidney Sheldon Read Quote
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. Sidney Sheldon Read Quote
