Top 180 Danielle Steel Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.”

— Danielle Steel

52. “You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.”

— Danielle Steel

53. “I’m astonished by my success.”

— Danielle Steel

54. “I always try to write about believable people.”

— Danielle Steel

55. “A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.”

— Danielle Steel

56. “The homeless need so many things from us. In addition to housing, medical care, mental health care, and job training, they need a strong hand to help them up. And aside from what we can do practically, we need to share our strength and give them hope: the hope that things can change, and the courage to hang on.”

— Danielle Steel

57. “They’re all special, but no one gets special treatment.”

— Danielle Steel

58. “Most of us don’t see it that way, but there are chapters in our lives,” he said quietly. “We want to believe that the same characters will be in the story forever. But it rarely seems to work out that way. Some characters leave the story, others come along. It keeps it lively and surprising, don’t you think?”

— Danielle Steel

59. “Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.”

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

61. “She didn’t want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.”

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

63. “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.”

— Danielle Steel

64. “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.”

— Danielle Steel

65. “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.”

— Danielle Steel

66. “Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.”

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

69. “Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.”

— Danielle Steel

70. “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!”

— Danielle Steel

71. “Nothing is irreversible except dying.”

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

73. “Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.”

— Danielle Steel

74. “I don’t buy trends, because the pieces don’t last and I wind up never wearing them. That’s why I like to shop with my children; they’ll always tell me the truth.”

— Danielle Steel

75. “The ideal person is not the one with whom one can be happy, but the one without whom one can’t be happy. – Anonymous.”

— Danielle Steel

76. “There are no mysteries, only unanswered questions that have no answers, and the memory of people who enter and leave our lives, for a short or long time, and stay only as long as they are meant to. We cannot change the patterns of life, but only observe them, and bend to their will with grace.”

— Danielle Steel

77. “It was the cruelest of destiny’s tricks, the death of a young person.”

— Danielle Steel

78. “It was March in the Napa Valley, just under sixty miles north of San Francisco, and Joy Lammenais’s favorite time of year. The rolling hills were a brilliant emerald green, which would fade once the weather grew warmer, and get dry and brittle in the summer heat. But for now, everything was fresh and new, and the vineyards stretched for miles across the Valley. Visitors compared it to Tuscany in Italy, and some to France.”

— Danielle Steel

79. “I don’t want to have to give up me, in order to be his.”

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

81. “Life is made up of special moments, moments of joy, or of sorrow, of great good fortune, incredible thoughtfulness, moments you never forget, and that impact an entire lifetime, moments you treasure.”

— Danielle Steel

82. “My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn’t want to read them again.”

— Danielle Steel

83. “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.”

— Danielle Steel

84. “And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn’t said, the fact that he hadn’t loved her.”

— Danielle Steel

85. “People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you’re famous.”

— Danielle Steel

86. “My kids are more precious to me than anything. I’m with them all day, and I write all night.”

— Danielle Steel

87. “We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.”

— Danielle Steel

88. “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.”

— Danielle Steel

89. “We’re all given terrible trials sometimes, things that we think will break our spirit and kill us, and they make us stronger in the end. They seem like the cruelest blows, but in a funny way they’re like compliments from God.”

— Danielle Steel

90. “Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor “You’re loveable”!”

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

93. “I decided I would never do interviews again.”

— Danielle Steel

94. “I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.”

— Danielle Steel

95. “I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.”

— Danielle Steel

96. “But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.”

— Danielle Steel

97. “I kept telling myself it was just temporary, but one day temporary becomes your whole life. You wake up, and you’re not twenty or twenty-seven anymore, you’re thirty-eight and you’ve given up all your dreams. I don’t want to do that again. That’s why I came here. From now on, I want things to be different, and this was the first step. I want to make decisions, not just float along letting life happen to me. I want more than that.”

— Danielle Steel

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

— Danielle Steel

99. “I don’t just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.”

— Danielle Steel

100. “I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.”

— Danielle Steel