Jane Haddam famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
-- Jane Haddam

#Respect #Self Esteem #Self
The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.
-- Jane Haddam

#New York #Thinking #Cities
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
-- Jane Haddam

#Fighting #Advice #Half
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
-- Jane Haddam

#Teacher #College #Editors
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
-- Jane Haddam

#Art #Years #Editors
I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
-- Jane Haddam

#Book #Character #People
I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
-- Jane Haddam

#Writing
My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.
-- Jane Haddam

#Husband #Hate #Care
People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
-- Jane Haddam

#Confused #People #History
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.
-- Jane Haddam

#Character #Way #Emphasis
Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
-- Jane Haddam

#Opposites #Nuggets #Littles
I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.
-- Jane Haddam

#Hate #Book #Lasts
I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
-- Jane Haddam

#School #Son #Schedules
Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.
-- Jane Haddam

#Real #Real Life #Being Real
Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.
-- Jane Haddam

#Education #Training #Definitions

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