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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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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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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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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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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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