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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.
Mark Haddon
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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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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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... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
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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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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've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
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Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.
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