Danielle Steel Quotes

• Things work out the way they’re meant to

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

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

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

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• 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!

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

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• A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• My kids are more precious to me than anything. I’m with them all day, and I write all night.

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

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• It’s hard being visible, so I’ve made myself invisible.

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• 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.

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• I’ve shut myself inside these walls, and I’m going to be a very lonely old lady if I’m not careful.

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

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• I’m astonished by my success.

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

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• I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

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

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Danielle Steel (30)

Birth:	14th August, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Danielle Steel was born in New York City. She is an American novelist, currently the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold. He has also published children's fiction and poetry, as well as raising funds for the treatment of mental illness. Her books have been translated into 28 languages, with 22 adapted for television, including two that have received Golden Globe nominations. She studied literature design and fashion design, first at Parsons School of Design in 1963 and then at New York University from 1963 to 1967.

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