Janet Evanovich

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter...”

“Nice dress. Take it off.”

“I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.”

“I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum”

“Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.”

“Babe!”

“If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.”

“He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he...”

“I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman want him. Ranger was magic.”

“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...”

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

“I had been going around to everybody saying Katherine Heigl has to be 'Stephanie Plum', and then one day, I got that phone call saying that it was Katherine.”

“The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.”

“'Plum's are probably the funniest, but all the books have their own degree of humor. But if you're hooked into 'Ranger,' you're reading it for the romance.”

“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.”

“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 suc...”

“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 g...”

“When I storyboard, they're just fragments of thoughts. I write in three acts like a movie, so I have my plot points up on the preliminary storyboard.”

“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.”

“I'm a real voyeur.”