Quotes from Sidney Sheldon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Writing novels is the most exciting.

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.

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