Jane Haddam Quotes

"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

"Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously."
- Jane Haddam
(Related: Life)

"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
(Related: Business, HusbCare, Hate)

"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
(Related: Advice, Writer)

"I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."
- Jane Haddam
(Related: College)

"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
(Related: Art, Fame, Years)

"I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character."
- Jane Haddam
(Related: People, Character, Books)

"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
(Related: Books, Hate)

"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
(Related: Fact)

"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
- Jane Haddam
(Related: School, Sons)

"I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation."
- Jane Haddam
(Related: History)