Sidney Sheldon Quotes - Page 3

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 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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Nothing lasts forever

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

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.

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

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.

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.

Writing novels is the most exciting

Womens value has been under-recognized for far too long.

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

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.

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

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