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Book Quotes by Mark Haddon
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted…
- From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
- Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that…
- Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
- 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…
- I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
- I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
- I think good books have to make a few people angry.
- I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
- 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.
- My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
- And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and…
- ...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything
- Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and…
- One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if…
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