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Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

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Mark Haddon
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Bedtime
Dont
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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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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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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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