Quotes from 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.

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If you believe in what you are doing, then you must fight for it. You must stay. Do not let anyone frighten you away.

Even when lightning flashes inside them [clouds], we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.