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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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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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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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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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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
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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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Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
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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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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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