Top 51 Quotes by Danielle Steel

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

I work too hard and don't play enough.

I wish I were braver, although I try.

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

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

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

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.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

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.

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.