Danielle Steel
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Danielle Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel, better known by the name Danielle Steel, is an American novelist, currently the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 August 1947
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Danielle Steel quotes about
falling-in-love people feelings
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.
ready austen dickens
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?
real thinking literature
I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.
father car grew
I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.
book character care
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
fun play brave
I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.
kids car trying
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.
school different freak
I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria
heart mind done
Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn’t say she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart was not constantly as heavy. Only when she thought about him. But she knew that in time, she’d survive it. She had done it before and would again. Eventually the heart repairs.
lighting
I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.
mean writing survival
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.
years firsts literature
I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.
dream never-settle someday
Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them
wall writing animal
Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.