Janet Evanovich Quotes

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

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• The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Me

• For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.

  

  Yuna
  • Clothes
  • Season
  • Shop

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Baby

• When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Good
  • Long
  • Character

• If the home is good, all will be good.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Home
  • Will

• You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Good
  • Know
  • Politics

• You can't get dressed without good hair.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Dressed

• I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Day

• If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • You
  • Problem

• Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Me

• I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Smart

• When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Good
  • Past
  • Culture

• The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • America
  • Political

• There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Kids
  • Power

• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • God
  • Experience
  • Science

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

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Good
  • Writing