Best 59 quotes of Sidney Sheldon on MyQuotes

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

...but ready or not,life goes on.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

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.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

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.

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

I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

It's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE.

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

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 of anything scarier than that?

I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Nothing lasts forever

Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.

She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.

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.

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

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 creative process tremendously stimulating.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

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.

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.