Jane Haddam Quotes

#1. 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

#2. He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#3. 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

#4. When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

Don Feder

#5. Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment.

Costa Georgiadis

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

Jane Haddam

#7. He stood there, enraptured as she went on in non-stop wedding plan chatter. It was like watching his very own Cinderella getting her fairytale dream come true.

Lucian Bane

#8. For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Emily Browning

#9. 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

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

Jane Haddam

#11. When I think of the word "organic," I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.
That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like.

Tamara L. Chilver

#12. But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Jane Haddam

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

Jane Haddam

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

Jane Haddam

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Jane Haddam

#21. A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.

Gregory Maguire

#22. 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

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

Jane Haddam

#24. If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Ross Perot

#25. References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual

Dan Brown

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

Jane Haddam

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

Jane Haddam

#28. To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

Paul Valery

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

Jane Haddam