If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
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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.Mark Haddon
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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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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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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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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My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
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