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Sidney Sheldon

American

February 11, 1917

Novelist

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I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

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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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Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

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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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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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