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Mark Haddon
September 26, 1962 -
Nationality: English
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: English Novelist

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

   

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.

   

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

   

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

   

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

   

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

   

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

   

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.

   

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

   

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.

   

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

   

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

   

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.

   

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.

   

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

   

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.

   

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

   

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