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Mark Haddon Quotes & Sayings
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36 entries tagged including 4 subtopics.
Last updated Apr 2024
Mark Haddon Topics
Disability
Cleverness
Perspective
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Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.
Mark Haddon
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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.
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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.
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There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
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Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
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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 entertain them.
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That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
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No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
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My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
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Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
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Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
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Many children's writers don't have children of their own.
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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.
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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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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 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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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
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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 was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
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