Zitat des Tages von Danielle Steel:
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.
At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.
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 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.
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
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.
I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.
I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.
I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.
I always try to write about believable people.
Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.
I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
I studied literature design and fashion design.
My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.
My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
I started writing stories as a child.
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 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.
I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
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.
Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.
I decided I would never do interviews again.
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!
I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.
I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.
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.
I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious.