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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
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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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I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
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The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
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With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.
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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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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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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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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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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
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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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... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
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The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.
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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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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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As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.
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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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And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
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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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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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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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