Danielle Steel
I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things.Collection: Jobs
You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.Collection: Home
Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.Collection: Hurt
.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.Collection: People
It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.Collection: Children
People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.Collection: Girl
Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.Collection: Bullying
I love what I do. I'm so lucky.Collection: Lucky
You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.Collection: Men
There's a lid for every pot... You Just have to find yours. -AveryCollection: Pot
She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.Collection: Letting Go
By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.Collection: Character
I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.Collection: Thinking
I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.Collection: Men
I've rarely met a shoe I didn't like.Collection: Shoes
If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Wall
When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.Collection: Writing
Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.Collection: Things In Life
I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.Collection: Children
I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.Collection: Book
Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.Collection: Book
I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!Collection: Shoes
There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.Collection: Hard Work
He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.Collection: Broken
But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.Collection: Jobs
And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.Collection: Facts
.. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up." CollinCollection: Brother
Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.Collection: Long Distance Relationship
I never met a chocolate I could not eat.Collection: Wedding
There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]Collection: San Francisco
I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.Collection: Giving Up
Nothing is irreversible except dying.Collection: Dying
If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.Collection: Way
Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.Collection: Love Is
Things work out the way they’re meant to.Collection: Romance