Sidney Sheldon

If we want a spaceship built or the distance of a star measured, we call in the experts. But when we want something really important done, we collect twelve ordinary folks to do it. As I recall, the founder of Christianity did the same thing.

Sidney Sheldon

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

Sidney Sheldon

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

Sidney Sheldon

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.

Sidney Sheldon

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle’s wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.

Sidney Sheldon

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

Sidney Sheldon

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.

Sidney Sheldon

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

Sidney Sheldon

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.

Sidney Sheldon

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

Sidney Sheldon