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You love someone, you've got to let something go.

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
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On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
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Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
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Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.
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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 secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
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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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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
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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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I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.
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Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
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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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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
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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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..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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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
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... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
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And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.
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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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