Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel, better known by the name Danielle Steel, is an American novelist, currently the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 August 1947
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
writing trying stuff
I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
kids car trying
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.
long rejection trying
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.
writing people trying
I always try to write about believable people.
giving people trying
I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
books books-and-reading nice people versions
People do like the film versions of things, ... I thought this was a nice way to get my books back into the marketplace.
children otherwise
You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.
exempt people
When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.
astonished famous occurred success wrote
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.
I want to be Miss Universe when I grow up.
I wish I were braver, although I try.
future
If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.
success congratulations
I'm astonished by my success.
san-francisco style dresses
There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]