Top 100 Sidney Sheldon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Sidney Sheldon

52. “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

53. “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.”

— Sidney Sheldon

54. “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.”

— Sidney Sheldon

55. “When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.”

— Sidney Sheldon

56. “There was an old Hungarian proverb: ‘Only a fool rushes bad news.”

— Sidney Sheldon

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

— Sidney Sheldon

58. “I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.”

— Sidney Sheldon

59. “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.”

— Sidney Sheldon

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

— Sidney Sheldon

61. “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.”

— Sidney Sheldon

62. “I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.”

— Sidney Sheldon

63. “In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.”

— Sidney Sheldon

64. “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

65. “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.”

— Sidney Sheldon

66. “It’s indecent for anyone to be this happy, Tracy Whitney thought.”

— Sidney Sheldon

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

— Sidney Sheldon

68. “I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.”

— Sidney Sheldon

69. “He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.”

— Sidney Sheldon

70. “How long a honeymoon are you planning?” Mrs. Stanhope inquired. “About fifty years,” Charles replied.”

— Sidney Sheldon

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

— Sidney Sheldon

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

— Sidney Sheldon

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

— Sidney Sheldon

74. “I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I’ve been there to personally research it.”

— Sidney Sheldon

75. “My ancestors survived famine and plagues and floods, and I’m going to survive this.”

— Sidney Sheldon

76. “Everything passes. Nothing is forever. Least of all love. Cameron.”

— Sidney Sheldon

77. “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.”

— Sidney Sheldon

78. “Men were handy to have around, when required. They were not particularly intelligent, but they could be taught to fetch and light cigarettes, run errands, open doors and give satisfaction in bed. They made excellent pets, dressed and bathed themselves and were toilet-trained. An amusing species.”

— Sidney Sheldon

79. “He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future.”

— Sidney Sheldon

80. “You must understand something, Mr Thompson. What I do has nothing to do with the money or the bricks and steel that make a building. It’s the people who matter. I’m able to give them a comfortable place to work or to live, a place where they can raise families and have decent lives. That’s what was important to my father, and it became important to me.”

— Sidney Sheldon

81. “Fate will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it.”

— Sidney Sheldon

82. “Paul Martin took his marriage vows seriously. For instance, he would never have dreamed of dishonouring his wife by taking her and his mistress to the same restaurant. His marriage was one part of his life, his affairs were another.”

— Sidney Sheldon

83. “Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom. She saw those around her fall ill and die, and she equated power with life. One day, Kate thought, I’ll have power. No one will be able to do this to me again.”

— Sidney Sheldon

84. “But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.”

— Sidney Sheldon

85. “Each manager sees his own division as the center of the world, and that’s as it should be. But someone has to have an overall view and decide what’s best for the company.”

— Sidney Sheldon

86. “But loving and being in love are two different things, aren’t they?”

— Sidney Sheldon

87. “She had found that men who were outstandingly handsome were either monumentally stupid or unbearably dull.”

— Sidney Sheldon

88. “Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.”

— Sidney Sheldon

89. “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

90. “There was no one to see her off, no one for her to care about, no one who cared about her. That’s not true, Tracy told herself.”

— Sidney Sheldon

91. “It takes a man to make a woman feel female, Jennifer thought, to make her feel beautiful, to make her feel wanted.”

— Sidney Sheldon

92. “She used a lot of makeup – thick, dark eyeliner, false eyelashes, colored eye shadow and bright lipstick. It was as though she were trying to hide her beauty.”

— Sidney Sheldon

93. “Civilization was a thin, dangerously fragile veneer, and when that veneer cracked, man became one with the beasts again, falling back into the slime of the primeval abyss he prided himself on having climbed up from.”

— Sidney Sheldon

94. “Beware of people who say they’re too rich to have to work for money, Adam thought.”

— Sidney Sheldon

95. “His dreams were so big and his successes so small.”

— Sidney Sheldon

96. “A man’s shoes said something about his character. Jennifer looked for jurors who wore comfortable shoes, because they were inclined to be easy-going.”

— Sidney Sheldon

97. “It was as though her emotions had been worn out. She went from hatred to anger and, finally, to a resigned acceptance.”

— Sidney Sheldon

98. “Peace is a simple word, but it has a lot of ramifications. Peace doesn’t have any financial benefits. When there’s a war, countries buy billions of dollars’ worth of armaments that are made here in the United States. In peacetime, they don’t need any. Because Iran can’t sell its oil, oil prices are up, and the United States gets the benefit of that.”

— Sidney Sheldon

99. “Kelly, before you walked out there, the audience thought you were just a beautiful, untouchable dream, a fantasy, out of reach. When you tripped and fell, it showed them that you’re human, and they adored you for it.”

— Sidney Sheldon

100. “I hope I didn’t wake.”

— Sidney Sheldon