Character Quotes by Jane Haddam

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

— Jane Haddam

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

— Jane Haddam

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

— Jane Haddam

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…

— Jane Haddam

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

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

— Jane Haddam

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on…

— Jane Haddam

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…

— Jane Haddam

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

— Jane Haddam

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously. The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now.…

— Jane Haddam

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

— Jane Haddam

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

— Jane Haddam