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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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Danielle Steel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 14
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schülein-Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel
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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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What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?
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Some things in life are worth waiting for.
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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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I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
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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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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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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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...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.
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Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works
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Never lend your car keys to someone you gave birth to.
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For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.
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.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.
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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.
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I'm astonished by my success.
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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.
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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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You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.
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If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.
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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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