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Sidney Sheldon

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When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.


— Sidney Sheldon


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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.


— Sidney Sheldon


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I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.


— Sidney Sheldon


#feel #go #great #i #lengths

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.


— Sidney Sheldon


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I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.


— Sidney Sheldon


#both #emotional #give #heroes #i

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.


— Sidney Sheldon


#before #first #hollywood #i #reader

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.


— Sidney Sheldon


#give #listen #make #many #only

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.


— Sidney Sheldon


#attractive #characters #fact #female #female characters

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


#books #changed #find #her #his

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.


— Sidney Sheldon


#body #groucho #had #his #made






About Sidney Sheldon






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Their daughter Mary Sheldon became a novelist as well. He struggled with bipolar disorder for years; he contemplated suicide at 17 (talked out of it by his father who discovered him) as detailed in his autobiography publiSidney Sheldond in 2005 The Other Side of Me. "
Sheldon created produced and wrote I Dream of Jeannie in his co-production capacity with Screen Gems.

Sidney Sheldon (February 11 1917 – January 30 2007) was an Academy Award-winning American writer. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66) I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84) but he became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as Master of the Game (1982) The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980). He is the seventh best selling fiction writer of all time.

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