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

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
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Screenwriter
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The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
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Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
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... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
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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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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
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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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I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? I read the King James Bible, as all English writers should. And when I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
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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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You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
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I think good books have to make a few people angry.
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There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.
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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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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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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
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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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But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.
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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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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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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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