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The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
Mark Haddon
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Mark Haddon
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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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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A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.
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And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
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