Quotes By 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.

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.

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

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

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 decided I would never do interviews again.

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

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.

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

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.

I work too hard and don't play enough.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm astonished by my success.

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

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