A biography for Danielle Steelhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Things work out the way they're meant to”
“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.”
“A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.”
“I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.”
“Somehow you drift along on the river, and one dayyou wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want tobe, with someone you realize you don’t know.”
“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 work too hard and don't play enough.”
“I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.”
“I want to be Miss Universe when I grow up.”
“My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.”
“I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.”
“I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.”
“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 completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.”
“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'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've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.”
“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”
“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.”