Quotes from Danielle Steel

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.

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 decided I would never do interviews again.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 want to be Miss Universe when I grow up.