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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."

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"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."

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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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"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."

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"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."

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"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."

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"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."

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"I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one."

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"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."

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"My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it."

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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? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."

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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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