 At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit. |
| I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there. |
| I started writing stories as a child. |
| I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work. |
| I'm astonished by my success. |
| A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. |
| The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids. |
| In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. |
| If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again. |
| I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. |
| 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. |
| It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart. |
| 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! |
| A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply. |
| My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night. |
| Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down. |
| I decided I would never do interviews again. |
