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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.

~Mark Haddon

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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.

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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.

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

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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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No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

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

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That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

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The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: September 26th, 1962

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