Jane Haddam Quotes

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

Obviously, my daughter's my priority, so if you want to have plans with me and then my daughter calls, then I'm going to have to go with her.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me.

I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

My children come first and the career comes in around that.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

I have said a lot that it's very important to me to make time for my child and make her the priority. I made sacrifices so that I'm around and not traveling for that.

I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

My wife wants four kids, and obviously if we're having four kids, I need to make sure that the priority is family first.

I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.

I take care of my kids every day. I drop them off at school and pick them up whenever my wife is too tired.

My focus is supporting my family and children and whatever way that comes, in a healthy way, I'm gonna do it.

I've got two little girls, I've gotta do my best by them.

If someone would ask me to choose between TV and films, I would go for TV. I am content with it. Also, I have a family and a son to look after. A mother needs to be there with the child.

I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.

My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

Before I had a child, I had goals. And I still have to accomplish those goals, but now that I have a child, I have more goals to accomplish. So I can't waste time.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.