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Just Quotes by Mark Haddon
- 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…
- 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…
- Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien?…
- 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…
- With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick…
- A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos…
- When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in…
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