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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
Illustrator
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With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.
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I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
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The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
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I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.
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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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You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
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What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.
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...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything
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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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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'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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I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
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I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.
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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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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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Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.
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Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
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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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I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
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