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Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
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..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.
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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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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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I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
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...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.
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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 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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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
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