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And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
Mark Haddon
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Mark Haddon
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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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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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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I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
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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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Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
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And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.
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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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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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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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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
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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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