Sidney Sheldon Quotes

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

A library is the door to many lives.

Libraries...house our dreams.

Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

My passion for books has changed my life.

We get inspired and we learn new things.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better