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.

Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?' That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's an evil flying pizza out there, and it's got Brenda's name on it.

Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds.

Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones

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.

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

Sometimes it's hard to tell what's love and what's only indigestion