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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. "

Janet Evanovich

Yourself

Writing

You

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" I'm a real voyeur. "

Janet Evanovich

Real

Voyeur

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying. "

" I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans. "

Janet Evanovich

Fans

Choices

" 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. "

" Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment. "

Janet Evanovich

Positive

Best

" We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes. "

" 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. "

" You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out. "

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

" The best we can do is prioritize our needs and make choices accordingly. "

" I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction. "

" I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. "

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

" 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. "

" The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels. "

" If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books. "

Janet Evanovich

Want

Cry

" 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 success. "

" 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. "

" I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want. "

" 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. "

" Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it. "