I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
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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
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
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.
Mark Haddon
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.
Mark Haddon
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
That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
Mark Haddon
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