Janet Evanovich Quotes

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

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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 to keep working at it.

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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… it’s more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.

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

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

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• I’m a real voyeur.

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• 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.

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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 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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• 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 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.

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

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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 book.

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

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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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Janet Evanovich (17)

Birth:	22nd April, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Janet Evanovich was born in South River, New Jersey, USA. She is an American novelist. She studied at Douglass College, Rutgers University. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall. She has over two hundred million books in print worldwide and is translated into over 40 languages. She has written several novels(Stephanie Plum Series) include: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly, Four to Score, High Five, Hot Six, Seven Up, Hard Eight, Visions of Sugar Plums, To the Nines, Ten Big Ones, Eleven on Top, Twelve Sharp, Lean Mean Thirteen, Plum Lovin', Plum Lucky, Plum Spooky, Fearless Fourteen, Finger Lickin' Fifteen, Sizzling Sixteen, Smokin’ Seventeen, Explosive Eighteen, Notorious Nineteen, Takedown Twenty, Top Secret Twenty-One, Tricky Twenty-Two, Turbo Twenty-Three, and Hardcore Twenty-Four.

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