Sidney Sheldon Quotes

• The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

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• Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first.

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• Life is like a novel. It’s filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

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• A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

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• Writing novels is the most exciting.

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• Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long.

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

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• When people tell me I’ve kept them up all night, I feel like I’ve succeeded.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

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• Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Sidney Sheldon (35)

Birth:	11th February, 1917
Death:	30th January, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Screenwriter, Television Producer, Writer

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