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Mark Haddon - From the Books category:
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Children category:
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Children category:
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Editing category:
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Importance category:
That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Insight category:
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Pets category:
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time...
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Profession category:
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. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Questions category:
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Religion category:
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? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Simplicity category:
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Subject category:
Many children's writers don't have children of their own. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Writing category:
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Writing category:
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. (Mark Haddon)
Mark Haddon - From the Writing category:
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. (Mark Haddon)
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