Sidney Sheldon Quotes

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.

Writing a book is not easy.

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

I keep writing stories that I might want to bring to life one day.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.