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I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

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Danielle Steel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 14
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schülein-Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel
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There's a lid for every pot... You Just have to find yours. -Avery
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I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
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I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.
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I'm astonished by my success.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria
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Life, a good life, a great life is about Why not? May we never forget it.
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She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.
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Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.
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Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.
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I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.
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Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
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I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.
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That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.
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This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that.
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My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
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Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.
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I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.
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