Danielle Steel

I want to be Miss Universe when I grow up.

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.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.