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Mark Haddon Quotes

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: September 26, 1962

Topics

Character Experience Small Think You

When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw the prospect of my older sister going to middle school, high school, they decided that we would move to the north side of Chicago, Highland Park, and for me, that was a whole new ballgame.

John M. Grunsfeld

School Parents Me Sister High School

You always want to fight the best.

Best Fight You Want Always

You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake.

Stephen Graham Jones

Money People Fake You House Want

Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.

Stephen Baldwin

World My Own Out Up Own Stick

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Sidney Blumenthal

History Beginning Book End Voting

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Looking Forward Looking Forward Film

All my boys make me laugh.

Me Laugh Make Me Laugh Make

Male actors have to lie about their ages, too.

Lie About Too Male Ages Male Actors

I remember well my first 300 baud modem, which dialed up and scrolled text at an agonizingly slow speed.

Slow Speed Remember First Up Text

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.

Music Possible Write Orchestra Got

I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.

Voice Name Loved Magic You Table

A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad.

Time Working Abroad Lot

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