Haddam Quotes

#1. I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

Jane Haddam

#2. If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

Jane Haddam

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

Jane Haddam

#4. I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

Jane Haddam

#5. I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Veronica Roth

#6. Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. I eventually shifted to video. Video opened up new conditions, or freed me from old conditions ...

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#8. That life was full of rules. Too many rules; it was a prepacked kind of life.

V.S. Naipaul

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

Jane Haddam

#10. 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

#11. I always come back. He does, too. Actions speak.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.

Jane Haddam

#13. 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

#14. She knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor.

Christina Baker Kline

#15. 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

#16. Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

Jane Haddam

#17. 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

#18. I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.

Evan Hunter

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

Jane Haddam

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion.

Charles Dickens

#23. I don't wear orange or yellow on the red carpet because my skin kind of blends in with them.

Mark Indelicato

#24. I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

Jane Haddam

#25. 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

#26. Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

Ludivine Sagnier

#27. I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Jane Haddam

#28. 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