Many children's writers don't have children of their own.
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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
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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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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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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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