Quotes by Janet Evanovich

About Janet Evanovich:

Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie seller from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. The novels in this series have been on the New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists.
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Her concept of paradise was something more immediate: a book and a blanket beneath a tree, where she might read in peace.

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...Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff?" - Aunt Edna

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Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

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It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

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Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had...

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I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

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You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

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We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

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I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

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I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

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I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.

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I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a ...

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If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.

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I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

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I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

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The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

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I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

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Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.

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Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli

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If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead!

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Then I had to decide if I needed to wear shoes that kicked ass or were good for ass kicking, on account of there's a difference you know. ~ Finger Lickin' Fifteen

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Author Bio

  • NameJanet Evanovich
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornApril 22, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist