Danielle Steel Quotes

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

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

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 studied literature design and fashion design.

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

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

I always try to write about believable people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

I'm astonished by my success.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 started writing stories as a child.

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

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

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.

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

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

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.

.. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up." Collin

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

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