Quotes By 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.

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

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

I studied literature design and fashion design.

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

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

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'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

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

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.

I started writing stories as a child.

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

I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.

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

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.

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

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I wish I were braver, although I try.

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

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

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

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

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

I decided I would never do interviews again.