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Mark Haddon

"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 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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"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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"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."
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"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."
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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 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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"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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"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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"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed."
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