#her

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

#any #care #characters #everything #feel

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

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

#characters #control #creative #creative process #decide

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#areas #cause #clear #dealing #edge

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#become #good #greatly #himself #his

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people! ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#him #himself #like #oh #other

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#closest #hated #life #most #obstinate

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#had #haunted #i #me #midnight

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. ↗