Love Quote by Sidney Sheldon

Sheldon’s line sounds almost modest, but it’s a quiet manifesto from a writer who built a career on velocity: twisty plots, cliffhangers, and characters always one bad decision away from chaos. “Freedom” here isn’t abstract artistic liberty; it’s the practical, almost engineering-grade flexibility that the narrative form grants a commercial storyteller. Narrative lets you jump time, swap perspectives, plant a lie and reveal it 200 pages later. It’s the one medium where you can rig the room and control when the lights come on.

The phrasing matters. He doesn’t praise “the novel” or “literature,” but “the narrative form” - a broader toolbox that fits his own cross-medium life (stage, screen, page). Sheldon understood that story is portable: the same underlying machinery can run on television pacing or in paperback suspense. His intent is less to romanticize writing than to defend it as a space where constraints become advantages. A tight plot isn’t a cage; it’s a track, and the track creates speed.

Subtext: narrative freedom is also freedom from reality’s randomness. In life, motives stay murky and consequences arrive late or never. In a Sheldon story, causality is clean, revenge is scheduled, and coincidence can be made to look like fate. Coming out of the mid-century entertainment industry - where editors, producers, and audiences reward momentum - Sheldon’s “freedom” is the permission to orchestrate emotion with precision, then call it inevitability.