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..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Sticks
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I think good books have to make a few people angry.
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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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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
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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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Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
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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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Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.
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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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I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
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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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...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything
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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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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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I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
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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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And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
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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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The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
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Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.
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