Jane Haddam Quotes & Sayings

Halfway across town, Father Tibor Kasparian lay on the long hard cement cot that was what this jail cell had for a bed and wished he had a book. It could be any book. He didn't really think he could read right now, but it always made him feel better, and calmer, and more sane, to hold a book. He had never been able to understand people who did not read. He had never been able to understand how they held on to themselves. — Jane Haddam

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

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

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

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

If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in. — Jane Haddam

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

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

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

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

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation. — Jane Haddam

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously. — 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 to be the art director of Discover for many years. — 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

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

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