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Jane Haddam

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

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

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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."

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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 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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"I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."
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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'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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"I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character."
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