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 fiel…

- 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…

- 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 co…

- Jane Haddam

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

- Jane Haddam

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

- 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

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 In…

- Jane Haddam

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

- Jane Haddam

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

- Jane Haddam