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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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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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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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At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
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On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
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Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
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...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.
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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
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And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.
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For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
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Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.
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Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.
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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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And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.
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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 think good books have to make a few people angry.
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Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.
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What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.
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..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.
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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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