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Writing 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…
- Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
- 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.
- 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 started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
- I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
- 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.
- Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
- I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You…
- 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…
- Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,
- When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four…
- When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. — Margaret Atwood
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden