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Mark Haddon

"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."

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"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."

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"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

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"Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."

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"Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning."

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"I don't think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope."

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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

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"What a thrilling future for those of us who know that some day we will populate the kingdom of God."

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"There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well."

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"Even if the circumstances around you are like darkness, believe that God will give you light."

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"There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled."

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"This should be the motto of every follower of Jesus Christ. Never stop praying no matter now dark and hopeless it may seem."

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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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"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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"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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"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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Mark Haddon
"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."

Mind

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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."

Fiction

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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."

Fiction

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

Writing

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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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Mark Haddon
"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."

Life

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