Jane Haddam Quotes
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Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.
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I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
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I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.
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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…
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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…
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People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
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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.…
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I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
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I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
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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…
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I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
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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…
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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…
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Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.
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In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
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Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously. The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without…
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