Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.Mark Haddon
As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
Mark Haddon
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.
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.
Mark Haddon
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
Mark Haddon
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.
Mark Haddon
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