Literary Birthday – 14 August – Danielle Steel

Happy Birthday, Danielle Steel, born on 14 August 1947.

Danielle Steel Quotes

1. A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
2. A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
3. When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.
4. I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
5. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.
6. 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.
7. I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.
8. People do like the film versions of things, … I thought this was a nice way to get my books back into the marketplace.
9. If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Danielle Steel is an American author of romance books. Her books ‘often involve rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as prison, fraud, blackmail, and suicide’. She is currently the bestselling novelist alive, and the fourth bestselling writer of all time, with over one billion copies of her books sold. She is published in 69 countries and 43 languages. Steel has written more than 210 books, 182 of which are novels; 18 children’s books; four works of nonfiction, including a book of poetry; and she has written the lyrics for a music album. Her books have been adapted for television, including two that have received Golden Globe nominations. Her recent books include The Good Fight, For Richer for Poorer, A Mother’s Love, A Mind of Her Own, Far From Home, and Never Say Never. Her latest novel is The Portrait. Follow her on Instagram.

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by Amanda Patterson

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