Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,
("The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time")
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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
I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.
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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.
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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
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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
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
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