Danielle Steel Quotes

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I decided I would never do interviews again.

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