Danielle Steel is one of the most prolific writers alive, with 179 books to her name. She works 20 hours a day, and gets 4 hours of sleep a night.
). She has 20- to 22-hour workdays, but on occasion, she doesn't leave her desk for a full 24 hours. Her process is always the same, decade after decade: sitting down at her desk at 8 am, eating a piece of toast with a decaf iced coffee, and getting to work.
In the profile, 71-year-old Steel railed against"millennial burnout" culture, which she sees as unrealistic. On a recent trip to Amazon's headquarters, she was shocked to see so many perks in a place where work is supposed to be getting done. She told Glamour,"I never expected that quality of life at 25. I had three jobs at the same time, and after work I wrote. Now it's a promise that it's all going to be fun.
And Steel carries that mentality with her wherever she works, either in her home office in San Francisco or in her Paris home."Dead or alive, rain or shine, I get to my desk and I do my work," Steel told Glamour. She only writes using a 1946 Olympia standard typewriter, and keeps duplicates around for spare parts .
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