Slippery Word Quotes by Mark Haddon

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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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work…
• And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is…
• 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.

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