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I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Mark Haddon
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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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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
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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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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.
Mark Haddon
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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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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.
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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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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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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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As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
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That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
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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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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
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