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 Length, It Had To Be The Right Height And It Had To Be Comfortable. - SearchQuotes

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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 length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

Mark Haddon

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