Danielle Steel Quotes
"I'm astonished by my success."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Success)
"If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Future, Magic)
"In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Poetry, Passion, Teenage, Years)
"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
(Related: People, Talk)
"I try to write about the stuff that torments us all."
- Danielle Steel
"My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Want)
"I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Famous)
"People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: People, Famous)
"Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down."
- 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
(Related: Children, Famous, Rights, Kids)
"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
(Related: Trying)
"It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Being)
"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
(Related: Car, Life, Driving, Kids, Trying)
"A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it."
- 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
(Related: Lady, Lonely, Old)
"At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit."
- Danielle Steel
"I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Life, People, Hope)
"I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: First, Old, Years)
"I decided I would never do interviews again."
- 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
(Related: Money, Job, Night)
"I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with."
- 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
(Related: People, Children, Lying, Silly, Summer, Sun, Weather)
"I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Beach, Paris)
"I started writing stories as a child."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Writing)
"I studied literature design and fashion design."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Design, Fashion, Literature)
"I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Work)
"A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Character, Care)