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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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Sidney Sheldon
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 11
Died: 2007
Died: January 30
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I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.
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the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
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I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it
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Do you always throw your money away like this? Only when I'm in love.
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If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.
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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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Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
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If. A two-letter word for futility.
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Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it
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I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
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When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.
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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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