Quotes by 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.
• 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.
• Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.
• 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.
• I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
• 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.
• I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
• 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.
• I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
• I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.