32 Quotes by Jane Haddam

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    The best thing about a series is that it provides you with a continuing frame-you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time you write a book.

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    If you don’t burn the candle at both ends, what’s the candle got two ends for?

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

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    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.

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

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

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