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Novel 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…
- 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 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…
- 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.
- I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
- As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure.…
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