Quotes from Sidney Sheldon

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.