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I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

Mark Haddon

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Mark Haddon
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
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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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Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.
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Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
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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 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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The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
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...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.
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I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.
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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
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Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.
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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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You love someone, you've got to let something go.
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Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder.
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I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
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I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.
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I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
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Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
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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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