Top 30 Danielle Steel Quotes

The usual way – through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

I move between San Francisco and Paris… I have a wonderful beach house in California.

I’m astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.

I’m a terribly irresponsible eater – I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

I think I’m very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

At the moment, I’m enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you’re famous.

I always try to write about believable people.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

I wish I were braver, although I try.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I’m one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun – my children are horrified!

It’s difficult to talk to people… I walk into a room and I’m Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I’m with them all day, and I write all night.

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable… The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn’t have the same rights as other kids.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

I believe in love at first sight for houses – but not for people.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

It’s been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.