“I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, w...” — Jane Haddam Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.”

“Growing up, I was constantly labeled an 'oreo' by my black peers because of my proper speech and 'valley girl accent.'”

“When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.”

“I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one.”