Quotes from Jayne Ann Krentz

I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book." "If you know how it ends, why read the book?" "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".

Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.

Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair

Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.

I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.

Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Involved, period.

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.

Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.

Trust me, Wainwright, ninety-nine times out of a hundred you can bet the bank that I'm serious." "What about the one time when you're not?" "I'm asleep.

For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.

I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective.

Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.

I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books.

Now that, would be a really dumb ass thing to do.

Funny thing about the past. The older you get, the less it matters.

The hero in a romance is the most important challenge the heroine must face and conquer. The hero is her real problem in the book, not whatever trendy issue or daring adventure is also going on in the subplot. In some way, shape, or form, in some manner either real or perceived on the heroine's part, the hero must be a source of emotional and, yes, sometimes physical risk. He must present a genuine threat.

If you don't give yourself room to fail, Zack, you'll live your life inside an iron cage that will gradually get smaller and smaller until you can't even breathe.

A secret is only a secret as long as only one person knows it

Letty, it's just a business. Don't get emotional about it." She grinned. "You're a fine one to talk. You're the most emotional man I know." "The hell I am," he muttered. "I have a lot more self-control than you do, Madam President." "Let's not argue about that," Letty said

Find one lousy body in your aunt's fireplace and the first thing you know everyone is talking.

The very fact that you can even wonder if you're going crazy means you very likely aren't crazy. Real nuts don't question their own nuttiness. They think they're the only normal ones. That's why they're nuts.