Top 40 Janet Evanovich Quotes

I feel like I never would have been a success and gotten published without my family.

The best we can do is prioritize our needs and make choices accordingly.

What I do miss is the Jersey Shore.

I love Sherri Shepherd as Lula.

The ‘Barnaby’ books were always intended to be graphic novels.

There are some men who enter a woman’s life and screw it up forever.

I wasn’t always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

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.

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.

I look at the plotline and let my co-author basically write the book; first draft. Then they give it to me, and I totally destroy it and write all my stuff over it.

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 to keep working at it.

I’m a real voyeur.

When I storyboard, they’re just fragments of thoughts. I write in three acts like a movie, so I have my plot points up on the preliminary storyboard.

My world is better. Why would I want to waste my time playing golf? I can get up in the morning and be in this whole other world. I love my life.

Every time I write ‘Stephanie Plum’, it’s going to be Katherine Heigl’s face there.

I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.

We don’t appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

I’ve read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.

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

I made a choice that I was not going to be a pretentious writer.

I know nothing about making a movie.

Kate O’Hare is a former SEAL and is currently in the FBI – we know that there are no women in the SEALs, but we think there should be.

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

I work real hard so the reader doesn’t have to. I don’t want them to have to look up words.

There’s just so much craziness out there in the world; it’s like I couldn’t fit them all in my books.

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity – these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.

Way back before the ‘Alex Barnaby’ series was first published, we were talking with Dark Horse then about making it into a graphic novel of some sort. We just couldn’t get it together at the time; we had too many projects going on. We weren’t sure how we wanted to bring it forward.

I had been going around to everybody saying Katherine Heigl has to be ‘Stephanie Plum’, and then one day, I got that phone call saying that it was Katherine.

I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.

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 book.

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.

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

When you’re trying to expand your business, it’s about real estate in the stores.

Like ‘Metro’ and ‘Motor,’ ‘Troublemaker’ is written in first person. The only narration that happens is Barney speaking to the reader/thinking in her head. First person was a big challenge in the graphic novel because we want both men and women of all ages to enjoy ‘Troublemaker.’

I have people I love and trust on my team. And I’m lucky my family is incredibly talented in a variety of ways.

There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support that allowed them to build audiences.

What I have to outline is action and plot because I’m not particularly good at that.

The problem with celebrity hot guys is they either get old or go off the grid. That’s why a book is so much better… a hot guy can live in your imagination and stay hot forever!

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