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Write Quotes by Mark Haddon
- There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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?…
- 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 think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
- My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make…
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- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo