Danielle Steel

“I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.”

“- O que pode você ou qualquer um de nós fazer para evitar ser abandonado, Timmie? - perguntou Jean Charles filosoficamente. - As pessoas têm o hábito de nos deixar na vida, mesmo que não sejamos órfãos ou tenhamos cinco anos. As pessoas que amamos morrem, maridos e mulheres fogem, somos despedidos d...”

“I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.”

“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.”

“Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.”

“I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.”

“People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.”

“I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.”

“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.”

“I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.”

“I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.”

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

“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.”

“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'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.”

“I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious.”

“I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.”

“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.”

“At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.”

“Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.”

“Things work out the way they're meant to”

“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 astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.”

“A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.”

“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 always try to write about believable people.”

“I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.”

“I wish I were braver, although I try.”