Explore Quotes by Janet Evanovich

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

I'm a sitcom junky. And I love rom coms. Mind candy.

I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated by that period in time and would love to do more.

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

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

When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the storyboard and just start working through the plot line. I always know where relationships will go and how the book is going to end.

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

You have to have honesty to the product. You have to meet consumer expectations. You give them value for their money and give them a product that they need. I don't see anything wrong with all these things. And I don't think it's a bad thing to meet consumers' expectations.

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

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

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'm a real voyeur.

What I do miss is the Jersey Shore.

When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.

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

What I enjoy as entertainment is what I enjoy writing.

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 always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.

We're comic book fans; we're huge NASCAR fans.

Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.

What I realized halfway through writing romance is that you start out intuitive, and you make all these choices mostly based on yourself and what you like and what talent you have, and... if you want to have any quality control over your product, you have to stop being intuitive and start being more of an analyst.