Danielle Steel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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