I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. by Danielle Steel

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

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I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.

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Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you... by Danielle Steel

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

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Not everyone is meant to stay forever. by Danielle Steel

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

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Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

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Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never... by Danielle Steel

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

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No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

mobility limits men

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power... by Danielle Steel

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

intrigue differences men

Some things in life are worth waiting for. by Danielle Steel

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

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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.

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I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to m... by Danielle Steel

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

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Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

care good-things needs

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients... by Danielle Steel

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

cake literature writing

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.

voice people needs

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most wom... by Danielle Steel

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

car grew-up father

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

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Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

wake-up one-day rivers

Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

falling-in-love feelings people

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.

crazy girl real

This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that.

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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.

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