Quotes from Danielle Steel

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

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

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

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

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

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

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

I work too hard and don't play enough.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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.