Quotes By Danielle Steel

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

I studied literature design and fashion design.

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

I decided I would never do interviews again.

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!

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.