A.T. Danielle Quotes

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

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

By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.

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

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

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

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

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

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.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.

If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.

There’s nothing you can’t do if you want it bad enough.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well.

It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities.

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you'll lose your edge.

Steadily, we are listening more to the intelligence of our hearts—and acting on that wisdom. And that's what spirituality is—an expression of Love.

A spiritual connection with someone lasts forever, even when physical presence fades.

It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.

It was the cruelest of destiny’s tricks, the death of a young person.

You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.

Some people are just different, even in the same family.

A dream isn't worth living if you don't have friends to live it with.