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Mark Haddon

"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."

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"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."

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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

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"The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

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"I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work."

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"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."

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"I've never been one who agonizes over my work."

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"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

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"Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them."

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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

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"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation."

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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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"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
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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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"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
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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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"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."
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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 started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier."
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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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"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."
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