Quotes from Danielle Steel

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

I always try to write about believable people.

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

I wish I were braver, although I try.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Things work out the way they're meant to

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

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

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

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

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.