Janet Evanovich Quotes
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'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.
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What I do miss is the Jersey Shore.
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When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.
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If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.
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I feel like I never would have been a success and gotten published without my family.
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I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.
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As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.
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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.
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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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The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.
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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.
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I know nothing about making a movie.
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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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There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
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There are some men who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever.
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I have people I love and trust on my team. And I'm lucky my family is incredibly talented in a variety of ways.
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I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
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I'm a sitcom junky. And I love rom coms. Mind candy.
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I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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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've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.
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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.
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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.