Sidney Sheldon Quotes

The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I'm watching 'Breaking Bad,' there is something compelling about Walter White.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

Make the paper interesting.

Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.

I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.

To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.

Bo Schembechler was the best after-dinner speaker I ever heard. He'd even have the old boys in the back of the room snorting and jumping up and down.

I am interested in doing anything that makes for a good watch.

For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

Series Two of 'The Paradise' is meaty and thoroughly entertaining... and yeah, you're in for a good thrill ride!

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.