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...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

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Mark Haddon
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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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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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 do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.
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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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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'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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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
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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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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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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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The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
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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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My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
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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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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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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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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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Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
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