Danielle Steel Quotes:

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.

source: - Danielle Steel (2009). “The Gift”, p.91, Random House

Topics: Positive Thinking, Blessing, People, Wise Women

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

Topics: Angel, Magic, Literature

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

Topics: Another Chance, Chance

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.

Topics: Nice, Love Is, Romance, Love Lust

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

Topics: Wounds

Things work out the way they're meant to

source: - Danielle Steel (1991). “Changes ; No greater love ; Thurston house”

Topics: Work Out, Romance, Way, Things Work Out

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

Topics: Shoes, Practicals

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

Topics: Literature, Fame, Needed

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

Topics: Bullying, Abuse, Bruises

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.

Topics: Years, Signatures, And Love, Femme

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

Topics: Birthday, Good Life, Why Not

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

source: - Danielle Steel (1985). “Going Home”, Pocket

Topics: Song, Tears, Remember, Remember Me

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

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Bridges, Wings, Way

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

Topics: Writing, Cake, Literature, Bad Reviews, Baking A Cake

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

Topics: Forever

.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

Topics: People, Not Good Enough, Feelings

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

Topics: Men, Mobility, Limits, Your Freedom

For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

Topics: Littles, Life Is, Moments, Schizophrenic

Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!

Topics: Wedding Reception, Heard, Victoria, Reception, Dance Floor

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

Topics: Children, Kids, Rights, Adopted Children

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.

Topics: Two, People, Together

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

Topics: School, Different, Freak

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.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

Topics: People, Strange, Hopeless

.. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.

Topics: Believe, Play, Parent

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

Topics: Broken, Broken Hearted, Gone

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

source: - Danielle Steel (2009). “Bittersweet”, p.7, Random House

Topics: Dream, Never Settle, Someday

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.

source: - Danielle Steel (2009). “The Gift”, p.109, Random House

Topics: Rivers, People, Forever

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

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Topics: Differences, Made, Touch Me

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

Topics: Guarantees In Life, Promise, Guarantees

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

source: - Danielle Steel (2013). “Until The End Of Time”, p.83, Random House

Topics: Worry, Right Time, Right Thing

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

source: - Source: www.popsugar.com

Topics: Able, Extraordinary Things, Extraordinary

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.

source: - Danielle Steel (2010). “Legacy”, p.303, Random House

Topics: Moving, Different, Want

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

Topics: Decision, Want

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.

Topics: Moving, Past, Thinking, Moving Ahead, Heavy Burdens

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

Topics: Pain, Love Is, People, If You Really Love Someone

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

Topics: Believe, Sight, People, Love At First Sight, I Believe In Love

You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.

source: - Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company

Topics: Regret, Years, People, Good Years

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

Topics: Giving Up, Sometimes, What You Love

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.

source: - "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

Topics: Jobs, Night, Literature

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

Topics: Believe, Grace, Aging, Aging Gracefully

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

Topics: Destiny, Elements, Accounts

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

source: - Danielle Steel (2009). “Secrets”, p.26, Dell

Topics: Things In Life, Waiting, Worth Fighting For, Worth Waiting For, Worth The Wait

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

source: - "I'm going to be a lonely old woman if I'm not careful". Interview with Karen Angel, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 12, 2006.

Topics: Believe, People, Literature

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.

source: - Danielle Steel (2004). “Second Chance”, Random House LLC

Topics: Responsibility, Attachment, Self, Old Self, I'm Back

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

source: - Danielle Steel (2012). “Danielle Steel: 44 Charles Street & Malice: Ebook bundle”, p.58, Random House

Topics: Men, Needs, Good Enough

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

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Topics: Men, Differences, Intrigue

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.

Topics: Falling In Love, People, Feelings

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.

Topics: Children, Book, Writing

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

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Topics: Keys, Car, Birth, Car Keys

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.

Topics: Voice, People, Needs, Text Message, Human Voice

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?

Topics: Needs, Care, Good Things, Bad Things Happen

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.

Topics: Children, Book, Reading, Importance Of Reading

Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

source: - Danielle Steel (2009). “Southern Lights”, p.219, Random House

Topics: Hurt, Moving, Past, Moving Ahead, True You

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.

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Topics: Jobs, Writing, Fighting, Being Betrayed

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

Topics: Family, Girl, Mother, Faint Hearted, Teenage Girl

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.

Topics: Home, Eye, Boys

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.

source: - Danielle Steel (2010). “Big Girl”, p.378, Random House

Topics: Girl, Crazy, Real, Refugee Camps, Magazine Covers

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

source: - Source: www.popsugar.com

Topics: Lucky, So Lucky

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.

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Topics: Book, Years, Two, Edits

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

source: - Danielle Steel (2009). “The Wedding”, p.264, Random House

Topics: Men, Happens, Right Man

I always try to write about believable people.

Topics: Writing, People, Trying

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.

source: - Danielle Steel (2010). “Legacy”, p.213, Random House

Topics: Rivers, One Day, Wake Up, Want To Be With Someone

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.

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Topics: People, Giving, You Got Me

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

source: - "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

Topics: Writing, Trying, Stuff

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

Topics: Father, Car, Grew Up

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

Topics: Wedding, Chocolate, Boiled Eggs, Eating Chocolate

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.

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Topics: Children, Book, Typewriters

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

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Topics: Book, Writing, Always Working

I'm astonished by my success.

source: - "'I'm going to be a lonely old woman if I'm not careful'". Interview with Karen Angel, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 12, 2006.

Topics: Success, Congratulations

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.

Topics: Want, Claims, Ifs

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

source: - "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

Topics: Real, Thinking, Literature

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

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Topics: Men, World, Way

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.

Topics: Long, Rejection, Trying

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

Topics: Austen, Ready, Jane

Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn’t say she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart was not constantly as heavy. Only when she thought about him. But she knew that in time, she’d survive it. She had done it before and would again. Eventually the heart repairs.

Topics: Heart, Mind, Done

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

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Topics: Photography, Writing, Thinking

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

Topics: Teenage, Real, Passion, Teenage Years

Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.

Topics: Never Lose Hope, Courage To Love, Ifs, Love Again

I decided I would never do interviews again.

source: - "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

Topics: Interviews, Decided

I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.

Topics: Kids, Guy, Want

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

source: - "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

Topics: Lonely, Wall, Literature

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.

Topics: Lonely, Writing, Character

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

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Topics: Shoes, Obsession

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!

Topics: Summer, Children, Lying, Long Day, Silly People

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

source: - Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company

Topics: Writing, Mean, Survival, Cruel World, Despite

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.

Topics: Kids, Car, Trying, Driving Cars

I work too hard and don't play enough.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Play, Enough, Too Much Work

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

Topics: Hard Work, Enough, Wanted

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.

Topics: Mom, Challenges, Adults

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

source: - "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

Topics: Home, Wonderful, Share

.. 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

Topics: Brother, Feelings, Kind

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

Topics: Moments, Enjoy, Bits

When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.

source: - Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company

Topics: Writing, One Day, Catharsis

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

Topics: Wall, Writing, Animal, Burrowing, Small Animals

If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.

Topics: Writing, Play, Lunch, Not Worth It

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

source: - "I’m going to be a very lonely old lady if I’m not careful". Interview with Karen Angel, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 12, 2006.

Topics: Literature, Want, Reviews

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

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Fun, Play, Work Ethic, Too Much Work

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

source: - "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

Topics: People, Giving, Trying, Bleak

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

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Topics: Men, Thinking, Rights

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

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Topics: Thinking, Ideas, People

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

Topics: Book, Character, Literature

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

source: - Danielle Steel (2009). “The Wedding”, p.224, Random House

Topics: Facts, Said, Worst

There's a lid for every pot... You Just have to find yours. -Avery

Topics: Pot

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

Topics: Long Distance Relationship, Way, Intimacy

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.

Topics: Love Is, Unbearable, Painful

If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.

Topics: Way, Ifs, Meant To Be

She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.

Topics: Letting Go, Baby, Giving Up

Nothing is irreversible except dying.

Topics: Dying, Irreversible

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.

Topics: Children, Wind, Pieces, Tell Me The Truth

I started writing stories as a child.

Topics: Children, Writing, Ukulele

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

Topics: San Francisco, Style, Dresses

I studied literature design and fashion design.

Topics: Fashion, Design, Literature, Fashion Design

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

Topics: Eggs, Chocolate, Mets, Eating Chocolate, Boiled Eggs

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

Topics: Writing, Kids, Night

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

source: - "I’m going to be a very lonely old lady if I’m not careful". Interview with Karen Angel, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 12, 2006.

Topics: Literature, Invisible, Made

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

source: - Danielle Steel (2004). “Second Chance”, Random House LLC

Topics: Giving Up, Order, Giving

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

source: - Danielle Steel (2009). “The Wedding”, p.20, Random House

Topics: Jobs, Giving Up, Promise

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.

source: - "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

Topics: Taken, People, Steel

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

Topics: Lighting

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

source: - "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

Topics: Beach, Moving, California, Beach House

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

Topics: Years, Literature, Firsts

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

source: - Source: www.popsugar.com

Topics: Shoes, Mets

By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.

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Topics: Character, Creating, People