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Jane Haddam

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

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

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

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"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

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"I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."
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"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
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"I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation."
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"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."
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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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"Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously."
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"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."
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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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"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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"I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter."
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