Sidney Sheldon

“I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.”

“the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.”

“Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.”

“Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.”

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

“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.”

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

“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”

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

“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.”

“Writing novels is the most exciting.”

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