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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.
Mark Haddon
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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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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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 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.
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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.
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