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Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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You love someone, you've got to let something go.
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I think good books have to make a few people angry.
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... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
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Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
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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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Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
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Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.
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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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I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
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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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At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
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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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I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
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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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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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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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