Danielle Steel Quotes (30 Quotes)

I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.

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 started writing stories as a child.

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.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

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

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.

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

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!

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

People do like the film versions of things, ... I thought this was a nice way to get my books back into the marketplace.

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

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

I decided I would never do interviews again.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

I'm astonished by my success.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

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

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 completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.