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There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

~Mark Haddon

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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

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Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

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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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If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

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You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

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The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

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Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: September 26th, 1962

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