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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."

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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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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"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."
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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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"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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"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
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"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
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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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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."
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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 written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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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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