English - Novelist | September 26, 1962 -
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
Mark Haddon
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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.
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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 finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
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I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
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I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
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I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
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If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
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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 doesn't match up.
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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 at the chance.
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