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 think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.Mark Haddon
Many children's writers don't have children of their own.
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I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them
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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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