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Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.
My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.
I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.
I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.
I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.
What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.
I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious.
If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.
I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.
My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.
Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them
To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.
I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.
No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do
I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.
She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.
Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.
I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.
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.
There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.
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.
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?
I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.
I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.
Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.
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.
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 could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.
.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.
My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.
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!
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.