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A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

.. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.

.. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up." Collin

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

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.

Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn’t say she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart was not constantly as heavy. Only when she thought about him. But she knew that in time, she’d survive it. She had done it before and would again. Eventually the heart repairs.

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

I always try to write about believable people.

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.

I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

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.

I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.

If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!

I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

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!

I love what I do. I'm so lucky.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

I'm astonished by my success.

I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

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

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

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.

I started writing stories as a child.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

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.

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.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different.

It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

I work too hard and don't play enough.