Books Quote by Sidney Sheldon Download Open image “When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.” — Sidney Sheldon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Collaborators Hundred Movie Novel Write Writing
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to write music… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Making films is such a large, collaborative effort and there's so many people who are a part of it. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
When you aren't doing too many films, people find other things to write about you. — Arjun Kapoor Copy Share Image
A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think. — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
That's one of the great things about creativity. You labor away in a room, and when you're writing a film, it couldn't be more… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
“Even when lightning flashes inside them [clouds], we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
“if you're gonna shoot off your mouth, make sure it's loaded first.” — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
“...she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.” — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it,… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
“Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he's going to get hungry.” — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
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… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image