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Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Mark Haddon

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Narrow
Infinite
Imagination
Lives
Use
Care
Humdrum
Enough
Examine
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Scope

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Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.
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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
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You love someone, you've got to let something go.
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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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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've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
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Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
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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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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 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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..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
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My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
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