Danielle Steel

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough…

— 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

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

— 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…

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

“A man who really likes you and cares about you won’t care about your weight one way or another.”

— Danielle Steel

“Como você lida com suas responsabilidades, sua vida, o que faz dela, se prefere tornar a si mesma infeliz, no fim das…

— Danielle Steel

“never accepted things at face value, nor did what he was told to do. He had to believe something was right, and…

— Danielle Steel

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved…

— Danielle Steel

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous,…

— Danielle Steel

“This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went…

— Danielle Steel

This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend…

— Danielle Steel

.. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want…

— Danielle Steel

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops…

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

“She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children,…

— Danielle Steel

“them. She’s much too nice about it, but that’s the way she is.” Leslie almost said that that was why he loved…

— Danielle Steel

When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.

— Danielle Steel

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

“There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go...”

— Danielle Steel

“She had no idea where the future would lead her or what it would look like, but whatever happened, she was determined…

— Danielle Steel

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to…

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance…

— Danielle Steel

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…

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

“I don't want to make a mistake and marry the wrong woman. I'd rather be alone.”

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

“...But sometimes life made you give up what you loved most. Sometimes there were no compromises or bargains.”

— Danielle Steel

“They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again.”

— Danielle Steel

“Everett thought about it for a minute before he answered. "I go on with my life. I keep coming to meetings. And…

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel