Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
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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.Mark Haddon
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
Mark Haddon
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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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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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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