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

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Sidney Sheldon
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 11
Died: 2007
Died: January 30
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Sidney Schechtel
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Emotional
Dimensionality
Motivational
Villains
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The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
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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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When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
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Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
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We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.
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I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.
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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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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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Do you always throw your money away like this? Only when I'm in love.
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I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.
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She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.
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Nothing lasts forever
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...but ready or not,life goes on.
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If. A two-letter word for futility.
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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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the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
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