Mark Haddon Quotes

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• Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising…
• I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.
• Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
• There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
• Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
• Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
• 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…
• Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed…
• And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of…
• How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
• Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
• The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
• If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that…
• 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…
• Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where…
• Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
• You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
• I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to…
• Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
• 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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