Sidney Sheldon

“Just when you think you know all the answers, they change the questions.”

“I love writing. I love the loneliness of it. I love the discovery of it.”

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

“Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

“I don't write for critics. I write for readers.”

“My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper and a pen.”

“The future is not a gift. It is an achievement.”

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”

“To be a writer is to have a magical gift, to be able to touch people with words, to be able to make them feel, to be able to make them think.”

“Nothing is as exciting as a comeback—seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.”

“You have to be a little crazy to be a writer.”

“I have to write. It's a disease.”

“I am a commercial writer, and I'm proud of it. I'm a storyteller.”

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”

“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.”