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Danielle Steel Quotes

20 quotes from Danielle Steel — One of the best-selling authors of all time with 800M+ copies sold across 190+ books..

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“Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them.”

Dreams

“Some things in life are worth waiting for.”

Patience

“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.”

Relationships

“You can't move ahead until you bury the past.”

Moving On

“Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.”

Trust

“Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.”

Courage

“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.”

Love

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

Life

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

Fate

“You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.”

Action

“Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it's so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…”

Present

“If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.”

Hope

“Dead or alive, rain or shine, I get to my desk and I do my work. Sometimes I'll finish a book in the morning, and by the end of the day, I've started another project.”

— Danielle Steel, Glamour, 2019

“He was an extraordinary, talented, charming, funny, loving, brave boy. The book has helped many, many people on this topic.”

— Danielle Steel, Amazon interview, 2023

“I never say to guys, "So are you still a lawyer?… A doctor?… A brain surgeon?" They would think I'm nuts if I did. But men who are annoyed by women's success in business have to find a way to put them down.”

— Danielle Steel, personal blog

“I keep working. The more you shy away from the material, the worse it gets. You're better off pushing through and ending up with 30 dead pages you can correct later than just sitting there with nothing.”

— Danielle Steel, Glamour, 2019

“I absorb all the things around me, pick them up, and build a book with them, like a bird making a nest. In the silence of my own company, and a world that had come to a dead halt, there were none of the elements I use to add to a book.”

— Danielle Steel, Penguin Random House interview, 2020

“Hard work is the key to every kind of success, in every field and facet of life. Hard work, perseverance. There is no mystery to it. Hard work is always the answer.”

— Danielle Steel, Amazon interview, 2022

“No matter how wounded you are, you have to stay in the game.”

— Mort Janklow, to Danielle Steel, shortly before his death in 2022

“I write honestly about the things that hurt us or scare us, while always giving characters safe harbor and readers a sense of hope.”

— Danielle Steel, Harvard Business Review, November–December 2021

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Danielle Steel

One of the best-selling authors of all time with 800M+ copies sold across 190+ books.