Top 40 Danielle Steel Quotes

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

I studied literature design and fashion design.

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I’m one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun – my children are horrified!

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

I believe in love at first sight for houses – but not for people.

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

You can’t have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.

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.

My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.

I’m surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.

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

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

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

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

I’m probably the most uptight, conservative person you’ll meet. I’m very religious.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I want to be Miss Universe when I grow up.

Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I’ve paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 decided I would never do interviews again.

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

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I’m with them all day, and I write all night.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn’t want to read them again.

I started writing stories as a child.

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

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.

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