143 Quotes by Sidney Sheldon

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    To succeed, you need friends. To really succeed, you need enemies.

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    What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.

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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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    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.

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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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    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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