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

• 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

• Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

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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. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven’t paid me.

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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 field.

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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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• I’d like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

  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.

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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 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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• I don’t make my own schedule – it’s constructed around my sons’ school schedules.

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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 they’re convinced it’s fact.

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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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  Topics in Confusion, History

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

  Jane Haddam

  Topics in Self Respect

Jane Haddam (14)

Birth:	13th July, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Orania Papazoglou, better known by her pen name Jane Haddam was born in Bethel, Connecticut, USA. She is an American author of mystery novels. She was married to mystery writer William L. DeAndrea. Their son, Matt DeAndrea is also a writer. She has worked as a teacher at the college level and as a magazine editor. She has written several novels include: Sanctity, Sweet, Savage Death, Not a Creature was Stirring, Precious Blood, A Stillness in Bethlehem, Charisma, Bleeding Hearts, Deadly beloved, True Believers, Somebody else's music, Hardscrabble road, Cheating at Solitaire, Living Witness, Hearts of Sand, and Fighting Chance.

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