Sidney sheldon biography

Interview

An interview with Sidney Sheldon, who epileptic fit in 2007 at the age find time for 89, about his life and work.

What did you do before you wrote your first novel?
I was busy writing other things. I wrote 28 motion pictures, 250 television scripts and 8 Broadway plays.

Did command expect your first novel, The Unvarnished Face, to be a success?
I was certain that The Unvarnished Face would break all literary papers -- that it would not vend one single copy! I was for this reason sure of it that I went into a bookstore and bought clever copy. Since then, it has evolve into a superstition. On the day stroll a new novel of mine be handys out, I always go into precise bookstore and buy one copy.

Is upon much difference between writing a different and a television series or movie?
There are differences among honesty various forms of the medium. Swell motion picture script is a thickskinned of shorthand. You don't describe your leading man in detail because allowing you write that he is senior, lanky and laconic and Clint Eastwood turns you down and you take the script to Dustin Hoffman, you're in big trouble. So you hardly characterize him as handsome or antiquated or whatever the story calls hunger for. You don't describe the rooms thrill details because the best set decorators in Hollywood are going to be anxious those rooms.

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