Danielle Steel
22 quotes
Biography
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel is an American writer best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling living author and the fourth-best-selling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold.
"Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever."
"I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there."
"Things work out the way they're meant to"
"Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again."
"There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go..."
"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 studied literature design and fashion design."
"I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous."
"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."
"People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous."
"If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future."
"If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future."
"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."
"In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry."
"I'm astonished by my success."
"Somehow you drift along on the river, and one dayyou wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want tobe, with someone you realize you don’t know."
"If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance."
"Not all forms of abuse leave bruises."
"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."
"Some things in life are worth waiting for."
"You have to move forward in life. You can’t sit in the same place, unless you want to, that’s a choice too. But you can’t sit there because someone else says you have to, because your moving forward makes them uncomfortable.”Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. “Country.” Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright."
"No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do"