Danielle Steel is currently the best selling author alive and ranks fourth in the best selling authors of all time. Born on August 14th in New York City she spent her formative years surrounded by the rich and famous due to her parents’ inclusion of her in their frequent dinner parties, and these experiences would go on to find their way into her novels which often feature wealthy families, although these privileged folk are often victims of dark secrets and innumerable threats to their comfortable lifestyles.
Danielle began writing as a child and although for a while, she harboured a desire to become a nun, eventually her need to write overpowered her call to faith and after achieving success with her novels Passion’s Promise and Now and Forever, became a full time author. Now, several dozen books later we celebrate that decision with 10 Evocative Quotes from Danielle Steel.
“Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.”
“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.”
“People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.”
“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.”
“You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.”
“I do everything for everyone to make their lives easier and better and then I don’t know who I am, and they don’t care.”
“May the surprises in your lives always be good ones. And may the people in your lives treat you kindly and fairly.”
“It’s all about fate and destiny, and opening the right door at the right time, and having the guts to walk through it. It’s amazing how everything changes in the blink of an eye.”
“We all have our own crazy ideas about what makes relationships work. The trick seems to be finding someone with similar ideas, or compatible ones at least.”
“You can’t lose your identity unless you give it up. No one can take it from you.”
Danielle’s own life reads like one of her books with divorces, ex cons, court cases, and suicide blighting what should have been a charmed life but she has made the best of those hardships and translated them into her novels which have proven to be hugely successful.
If you fancy joining the army of Steel fans, why not have a look through her bibliographies that we have linked to below.
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