“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”
― Danielle Steel
“Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I’ve paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.”
― Danielle Steel
“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.”
― Danielle Steel
“A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.”
― Danielle Steel
“Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.”
― Danielle Steel
“I wish I were braver, although I try.”
― Danielle Steel
“I don’t like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don’t need that kind of attention and I don’t want it.”
― Danielle Steel
“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.”
― Danielle Steel
“If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.”
― Danielle Steel
“I believe in love at first sight for houses – but not for people.”
― Danielle Steel
“I’m a terribly irresponsible eater – I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.”
― Danielle Steel
“It’s hard being visible, so I’ve made myself invisible.”
― Danielle Steel
“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.”
― Danielle Steel
“I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.”
― Danielle Steel
“I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there’s hope out there.”
― Danielle Steel
“I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.”
― Danielle Steel
“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.”
― Danielle Steel
“People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you’re famous.”
― Danielle Steel
“My kids are more precious to me than anything. I’m with them all day, and I write all night.”
― Danielle Steel
“My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn’t want to read them again.”
― Danielle Steel
“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.”
― Danielle Steel
“In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.”
― Danielle Steel
“I’ve shut myself inside these walls, and I’m going to be a very lonely old lady if I’m not careful.”
― Danielle Steel
“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.”
― Danielle Steel
“I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.”
― Danielle Steel
“I think I’m very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.”
― Danielle Steel
“I studied literature design and fashion design.”
― Danielle Steel
“I started writing stories as a child.”
― Danielle Steel
“I move between San Francisco and Paris… I have a wonderful beach house in California.”
― Danielle Steel
“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!”
― Danielle Steel
“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.”
― Danielle Steel
“I decided I would never do interviews again.”
― Danielle Steel
“I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.”
― Danielle Steel
“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.”
― Danielle Steel
“At the moment, I’m enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.”
― Danielle Steel
“A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.”
― Danielle Steel
“I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough ‘fun’.”
― Danielle Steel
“I’m not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.”
― Danielle Steel
“I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.”
― Danielle Steel
“I work too hard and don’t play enough.”
― Danielle Steel
“I don’t buy trends, because the pieces don’t last and I wind up never wearing them. That’s why I like to shop with my children; they’ll always tell me the truth.”
― Danielle Steel
“I’m surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.”
― Danielle Steel
“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.”
― Danielle Steel
“You can’t have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.”
― Danielle Steel
“I always try to write about believable people.”
― Danielle Steel
“I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.”
― Danielle Steel
“I want to be Miss Universe when I grow up.”
― Danielle Steel
“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.”
― Danielle Steel
“I’m probably the most uptight, conservative person you’ll meet. I’m very religious.”
― Danielle Steel
“My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.”
― Danielle Steel
“When people look at me outside, they think, ‘She’s so lucky,’ but no one’s exempt from tragedy.”
― Danielle Steel
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