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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.
Mark Haddon
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Mark Haddon
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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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 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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