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I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
Mark Haddon
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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different even if there's a risk of it going wrong.
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I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
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There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
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I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
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I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a bit of a roller coaster ride...
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I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.
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With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.
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..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.
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The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
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I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.
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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
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Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.
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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
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...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything
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Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
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I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
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Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.
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