Danielle Steel Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

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

I studied literature design and fashion design.

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

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

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.

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

I always try to write about believable people.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

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

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead.

I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.

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

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.

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.

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

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

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

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.

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.

I started writing stories as a child.

When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.

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.

Nothing is irreversible except dying.

If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

There's a lid for every pot... You Just have to find yours. -Avery

She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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