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

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
Danielle Steel

At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.
Danielle Steel

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.
Danielle Steel

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

I decided I would never do interviews again.
Danielle Steel

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.
Danielle Steel

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

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!
Danielle Steel

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.
Danielle Steel


I started writing stories as a child.
Danielle Steel

I studied literature design and fashion design.
Danielle Steel

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

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
Danielle Steel

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

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

I'm astonished by my success.
Danielle Steel

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

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

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