Sidney Sheldon
16 quotes
Biography
"Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page."
"A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God."
"To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies."
"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?"
"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."
"I love the freedom that the narrative form provides."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others."
"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."
"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."
"When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours."
"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."
"Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived."
"Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long."