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Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves. (Mark Haddon)
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. View quote
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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. View quote
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You love someone, you've got to let something go. View quote
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... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time. View quote
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In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. View quote
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Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. View quote
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I want my name to mean me. View quote
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... and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt. View quote
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And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery...and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. View quote
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I find people confusing. (Mark Haddon)
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. View quote
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At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. View quote
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With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. View quote
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From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. (Mark Haddon)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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