Janet Evanovich Quotes - Page 14

I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur

He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush." Mary Lou Molnar

Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.

There's a small possibility that I might be a murder suspect" Stephanie

With the exception of dessert, food is food.

I think I got a bruise from landing on you. I hear bacon is real good for healing a bruise.

What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?" Helen Plum

Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and burned down a funeral home. Maybe that's some kind of record.

It would be difficult to tell," Wulf said. "I've always been a romantic. I've seen Casablanca twice, and I sat through the entire ordeal of Titanic". "Didn't you enjoy Titanic?" "I was relieved when the ship went down".

She'll be back," Ranger said. "But not tonight." [Stephanie] "How'd you get her to leave?" "Told her I was gonna spend the next twelve hours ruining you for all other men, and so she might as well go home." I could feel the heat rush to my face. Ranger gave me the wolf smile. "I lied about it being tonight," he said.

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.

I'm for sure a workaholic. I'm a complete control freak and I take on way too many projects.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.