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Mark Haddon

"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."

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"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."

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Donna Grant

"He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary."

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Donna Grant

"All right. Here's the deal, bigshot: suck my cock. Do that and I'll let you go. Straight trade."He unzipped his fly and pulled down the elastic front of his shorts. Something that looked like a dead whitesnake fell out. Johnny observed the thin stream of blood driz-zling from it without surprise. The cop was bleeding from every other orifice, wasn't he?"Speaking in the literature sense," the cop said, grinning, "this particular blowjob is going to be a little more Anne Rice than Armistead Maupin. I suggest you follow Queen Victoria's advice - close your eyes and think of strawberry shortcake."

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Donna Grant

"The image is horrible, I somehow couldn't get out, probably weakness of my character if you ask me... or who knows??But after all the story could go like father rapes his son or daughter which are babys which will mean age somewhere 1,2... but after all there isn't a lot of to be saw this can be heard on the news and it will be difficult to build great drama... but so far I could try this to do!"

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Donna Grant

"Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror."

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Donna Grant

"So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them upon ourselves. We're sitting in the darkness beyond the flickering warmth of your fire, cackling into our caldrons and spitting out spider webs of words, all the time sucking the sickness from your minds and spewing it out into the night."

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Donna Grant

"It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever."

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Donna Grant

"Horror it has it's own strange stuff... brutal stuff and it's difficult understanding!?"

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Donna Grant

"Horror is like the humor, the one without the other can't exist. Horror makes life more interesting like the humor!"

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Donna Grant

"Stop now before i kill youa word to the wise from your friendPENNYWISE."

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Donna Grant

"Where his eyes should've been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions."

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Mark Haddon
"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."

People

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Mark Haddon
"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."

Imagination

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Mark Haddon
"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."

Darkness

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Mark Haddon
"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

Chance

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Mark Haddon
"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."

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Mark Haddon
"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."

Books

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Mark Haddon
"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."

People

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Mark Haddon
"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

Life

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Mark Haddon
"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."

Books

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Mark Haddon
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."

Books

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