Danielle Steel quotes:

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

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

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!

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 believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

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

Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!

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

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

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.

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

I started writing stories as a child.

You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.

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

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

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

My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

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.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

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

I work too hard and don't play enough.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

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

I studied literature design and fashion design.

Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.

Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.

Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them

People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

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.

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

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.

Things work out the way they're meant to

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

I wish I were braver, although I try.

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

I decided I would never do interviews again.

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'.

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

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

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

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river...

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.

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.

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

Never lend your car keys to someone you gave birth to.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

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

.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.

That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

I've rarely met a shoe I didn't like.

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

Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.

You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

... It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different...

Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

...maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through...

You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

I love what I do. I'm so lucky.

I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things.

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

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

I'm astonished by my success.

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

You canâ??t move ahead until you bury the past.

There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!

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

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that.

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

I always try to write about believable people.

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

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

Whatâ??s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didnâ??t they?

For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.