Danielle Steel Quotes

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'

I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.

If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Authors should be honored only for their works.

To be publishing Stephen King, to be a friend to Stephen, when he is absolutely what got me into this business, is a really neat thing and something I don't take for granted.

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.

The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.