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17 quotes by Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich (born Janet Schneider; April 22, 1943) 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...
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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... →

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

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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 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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I'm a real voyeur.

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

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

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Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me...... →

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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... →

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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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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... →

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

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

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