Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

- Joann Ross

While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people trying to stick stories into tigh…

- Joann Ross

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

- Joann Ross

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

- Joann Ross

Any guy afraid to die was a guy who was afraid to live.

- Joann Ross

I was fortunate to sell at a time of great sea change in the romance genre; suddenly heroines were allowed to be portrayed as having rich, fulfilling…

- Joann Ross

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently…

- Joann Ross

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

- Joann Ross

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

- Joann Ross