Sidney Sheldon Quotes & Sayings

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you. — Sidney Sheldon

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

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

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. — Sidney Sheldon

The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind. — Sidney Sheldon

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters. — Sidney Sheldon

To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings. — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon

Being poor is only romantic in books. — Sidney Sheldon

HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church, — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long. — Sidney Sheldon

If you would seek to find yourself
look not in the mirror
for there is but a shadow there'
A stranger ...
SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon

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

The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable. — Sidney Sheldon

Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit — Sidney Sheldon

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache. — Sidney Sheldon

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms - greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind. (Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street. — Sidney Sheldon

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are. — Sidney Sheldon

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

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. — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game. — Sidney Sheldon

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

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that? — Sidney Sheldon

We're brought up to expect a happy ending. But there are no happy endings. There's only death waiting for us. We find love and happiness, and it's snatched away from us without rhyme or reason. We're on a deserted space ship careening mindlessly among the stars. The world is Dachau, and we're all Jews. — Sidney Sheldon

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

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

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. — Sidney Sheldon

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? — Sidney Sheldon

Writing novels is the most exciting. — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon

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

Not now.It's too late.It was always too late. — Sidney Sheldon

soon becomes clear that this is one killer. — Sidney Sheldon

But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died. — Sidney Sheldon

Sing me no songs of daylight,
For the sun is the enemy of lovers
Sing instead of shadows and darkness,
And memories of midnight — Sidney Sheldon

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

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one. — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon

Want them hand-delivered by our own messengers. Do you — Sidney Sheldon

God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves. — Sidney Sheldon

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. — Sidney Sheldon

that the countries that attack America for being too money-oriented are always the first to beg us for loans." It was the subject on which she and — Sidney Sheldon

Life is a cosmic grab-bag. At this moment, somewhere in the world, someone is losing a child, skiing down a mountain, having an orgasm, getting a haircut, lying on a bed of pain, singing on a stage, drowning, getting married, starving in a gutter. In the end, aren't we all that same person? An aeon is a thousand million years, and an aeon ago every atom in our bodies was a part of a star. Pay attention to me, God. We are all a part of your universe, and if we die, part of your universe dies with us. — Sidney Sheldon

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

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies. — Sidney Sheldon

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

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. — Sidney Sheldon

You are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die. — Sidney Sheldon

In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth. — Sidney Sheldon

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

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it. — Sidney Sheldon

The line came from a legend about a hunter who was relating an experience he had on safari. "This huge lion was racing toward me, and all my gun bearers had fled. I had no gun, and there was nowhere to hide. Not a bush or a tree in sight. And the beast was charging straight at me, coming closer and closer." "How did you escape?" a listener asked. "I ran over to the nearest tree and climbed it." "But you said there were no trees." "You don't understand. There has to be a tree!" And I have to find it, Robert thought. He — Sidney Sheldon

When they die no one will ever know that once they lived. — Sidney Sheldon

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do. — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon

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

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

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

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. — Sidney Sheldon

as Morgan had described it. — Sidney Sheldon

There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. - SIR WILLIAM OSLER — Sidney Sheldon

Once you have the solution, the problem might not be interesting. — Sidney Sheldon

Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sentimental gesture it was. In fact, Demiris had arranged for the burial plot to be there so that he could have the exquisite pleasure of walking over the bitch's grave. — Sidney Sheldon

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

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. — Sidney Sheldon

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind. — Sidney Sheldon

But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit. — Sidney Sheldon

Everything passes. Nothing is forever. Least of all love. Cameron — Sidney Sheldon

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, but when Groucho said something, he meant it. — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon

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

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth. — Sidney Sheldon

Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.
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Dr. Kat Hunter — Sidney Sheldon

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important. — Sidney Sheldon

But there was not a police car in sight. Sure, Tracy thought in disgust. They're never around when you need them. — Sidney Sheldon

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

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

Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves. — Sidney Sheldon

A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate. The — Sidney Sheldon

against Cameron's — Sidney Sheldon

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books. — Sidney Sheldon

He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future. — Sidney Sheldon

Masters no longer needed any — Sidney Sheldon

If. A two-letter word for futility. — Sidney Sheldon

Is Reading Doomsday Conspiracy!!!!!! — Sidney Sheldon

It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding. — Sidney Sheldon

I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept. — Sidney Sheldon

Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he's going to get hungry. — Sidney Sheldon

...but ready or not,life goes on. — Sidney Sheldon

If we want a spaceship built or the distance of a star measured, we call in the experts. But when we want something really important done, we collect twelve ordinary folks to do it. As I recall, the founder of Christianity did the same thing. — Sidney Sheldon

It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force.. — Sidney Sheldon

How long a honeymoon are you planning?" Mrs. Stanhope inquired. "About fifty years," Charles replied. And — Sidney Sheldon

Do you always throw your money away like this?"
"Only when I'm in love, — Sidney Sheldon

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. — Sidney Sheldon